, 1870-11-30
HUNTED DOWN..

TIA. y I
hlttei house Tnwn, n Parer Mil trret arose |
bout O'clock 1hls noEnteR apl threw herself |
me aaeam- Her body has been recoyeret.
HUNTED DoWH.
Capture By ST. Louis Detectives OF
inc Mort Notorious Couptcfleiger
in the West.
From the 81. Louis Times, Nor. 81,
Last Friday night, about 10 o.c]ock. one or !
The most important arrests made in the West |
Is',l 1H1 many Seafs past, was t1ected 1t Venice,
Cattney alids joe Woods. than whom no more |
notoflously successful connterfe,ter eyer op- |
erated vest Of the Allegheny Mountains.
McCa1tney has been fugitive from Justice |
for several years. and the government has |
spen. over s3V0D n endeavoling to effect his
capture. Colonial Wood, the former Chief OF |
the Secret Service Department. at Washington,
used every exertion to capture hin, mot spa1ing
elther men or money, hut was unable 70 bring |
nim TO Just,ee: When Colonel q. c. Whitley,
the present Chief, TOOK charge Of the depart |
mth'. N Eept up tho hunt, detailing old Aud |
wet.-tsied detectives for the duty. aud ILL
stIucting them not TO relax their exettiops
Cntil successful.
Tho clrcunastances attending McCArtuoy.s
arrest were kindly furni1hed ug last evening
by Detectives Eagan and App1egate, to whom
"'o aAus!t Etooh Sau HUI DC accorded Tor tha
great public service they have rendered. On
or about the 5sh Of thi4 mouth Mccartney,
with LIS family. went to Portland, Kentuckr.
Wishing. above all things, for se.lusiou. be
searched through the suburbs Of that town
and hnaliy offered man who was living in
hnnts there At the time. so AZ bonus to let
hin have possession. THE house not being
very desirable ono, the mans suepicions were
aroused, but he permitted the newcomers to
move IT.. A few days aItesward the man
went to the Chief Of Police in Louisville and
told him about Lis tenants, together With his
suspicious. lhe Chief. surprising that they
we're burglars, detailed detectives, Bly, and
Gallagher to work the case up.
Inn ofhcers sion found ont enough to WAT
rant thtir Masking descent upon the house.
They captured MeCArtneY's wife and man
known as Alexander Bll,'' but McCartney
i!ad If ., the house that morning. On search
turglara implements. Al they had expected,
they discovered full set OF eugravers tools.
together With printing press, rolling ms
chine, . fifty cent plate, and q FULL stock 0i
tho various plates and inks used in the manu-
now in j.il at Louisville. Colonel Whitley.
upon hearing Of the arrest, instructed Dstoct-
we EsEan. Of this city, to SO On to Louisville
md investigate the matter, and to sec it he
could not find some clue to McCA1tney's !
bo ThSn ;aaa Tsan ss, v1s .ysa in
|
ney had been discharged By the United
States Commissioner there, AID not being able
TO learn anything Of her husbands wherc-
a5cute, he brought MrH. Mccartney to this
c,ty. After staying hero few days .hs 1eft
and went 10 her mothers, who ia living in 1lli-
l ncis.
At the time Of his wifete arrest, Mccartney,
ID was afterwar1 asceftained, was here and At
Fred. Dlebusch'a Lousc, Fred. being al liberty.
1t is certain that he Aaw Fred, for in the over
coat that the latter threw away the night Of
his captufe, was 600 of counterfeit money,
which bad bcen struck OF of the plato that
WAS found On Mccartney at the time Of his ar-
rest.
4 week ago yesterday. Mccartney, togetlss..
rested by some detectives in Cincinnati Moth.
ip6 was found On McCa.tney, hut from John
eon were taken Si21 in counterfeit EOS, So,
and fifty cent fractional currency, with ful1
ret Of plates for printing the 20s. They were
locked up in the Third street police station,
but last sunday night Mccartney succeeded ID
escaping !; how Is not known
Esgan waa notified by Colonel Whitley to
so on and take charge Of Mccartney, but. wheu
the detective arrived, Monday morning, ht
| found that the bird had flown to some mort
congenial cline. Much chagrined at tho dis
appointment, Esgan returned TO St. Louis
little dreaming that hi. long and tiresom,
eearch waH 10 near \ successful termination
Friday evening last, about 9 O'Clock, EaRa1
received information to the effect that Nc
CARNEY was tasn in Venice, Illinois, suasl
trctiv Or positn The leland whern Frafj fic
butcA laT lid after Yorfeitinr Iis bail. Tno,
learning thir, Eagau, With detectives Appie
gate and Lcnergan, crossed the river, went VI
: to Venice, and caught their mau in hote
there,
When arrested, Mccartney proposed thst i
they would let him 60 he would give them fu1
| sets of plates ali ready for the taanufactur
OF every denomination ui ,uouey from IS
down to tifty cents, and whicu he said wer
.. worth, At tho lowest figure. ss0, 600. togethe
for distribution. Le guaranteed that hi
notes would sell readily At fifty cents on til
: dollar. This proposition, It Is hardly pecet
9 euy to say, was declined. Mccartney the
{ offered no less than Ss5, 900 for hia liberty.
After his capture, Mccartney was hsns
cutred 10 one of the detectives, placed in
canisge and brought to St. Louis. He vi
taken TO one Of our hotels and allowed to s
c ! to bed, two OF the detectives sittiug np
It night with him in the room.
Q Yesterday morning be was again ironed ~
s place he escaped IN 1867, after having bet
3 | convicted OF couuteffctite, Hie escork q
: rived there safely With Inn, md he is now On
: more behind TIE bars.
d Gu the 7th day OF May last Mccartney "
o here, and bought 1000 sheeta Of bank no
= pcpcr, which lie took with him NJ to Miuuea
oils, MINI, where he aud his family spent h
=. -.nmer, Lusily creaSed all the time in man
!. fkcturipr ..cpuev,a or counsarfeit mouey. a,
;s With which, had be not been arrested, he Won
% in a short iime Lave iooIod the whole We:
ID .rn cuntry.
le NcCayt,ev. Eho- a. re h,re st,+ad IA A.
Of the most nntei and e1nsrt rnnnta,te;ts
=, r, 4Ee I1n;ta, St.toa 49, r..s t.1ert "a
~ q, eIsver ia nsEes ali i;s apr ,s MA a'
is rce nrintor And thns doaa iii ~ n,1, 81 :,
er Witl.ont runninr the HI of lettinc ott,
into lis plans. About is ye.rs Of ace he
5fcet s>z inches tail, weighs about ISL pouns
and is an intelligent, genteel-2ooking m,
E. lie has worked with some Of tie most moi
ut tiuus counterfeiters in the countrv, eu
as as Joe Miller, . alias Eincaid. a
u u, the Reno boys, Of Seymour, Ind, who we
o. Q taken out Of The jail at New ALBANY, wht
70 they were confined Tor robblng au excrt
n. CIR OF the indianapolis i Je0ersonyilie Hoi
ut near Seymour, about tso years sro, and hu