The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-08-01

NeW York the Headquarters Of Con,.
te.Jeiters-EM Europe Flooded scith Sats.
sious Notes and Bonds.
= From the New York Sunday Mercury.
The Wdechter, the central organ oil
the German detectives, contains the
following startling article: 3e &
tsThere is no city in the world where
criminals engaged in ncounterfeiting the
treasury notes and bonds Of foreign
governments are as numerous as In
New York; Itmay justly be said that
New York Is the headquarters of those
Williams. They carry on their nefarious
trade in that city with almost perfect
impunity, and with an impudence and
unconcern truly amazing to the detec-
tiyes sent over from Europe to watch
and thwart their evil designs. There
cannot now be less than thirty Of the
best European engravers who are en-
gagged in New York In manufacturing
counterfeit plates of new European
bank notes. At least fifty persons
travel regularly between New York
and the ports of Continental Europe
for the purpose. of carrying the coun-
terfeit bills manufactured in New York
to the Old World, and as many more
persons residing in the larger cities OF
Europe act as agents for the circulation
of the spurious currency"
There is reason to believe that this
picture is by no means overdrawn.-
As general thing, the foreign gov
ernments whose treasury LOtes and
bonds have been counterfcited in New
York, send detectives over here for
the purpose of having the guilty par
ties arrested in this city, and demand
ing their extradition, but to entice
them by some pretext or other to Eu-
rope, where stern justice is promptly
meted out to them, and where the cul.
prits are not protected by the some-
what elastic laws of New York.
One Of the most remarkable instan.
ces of this kind is the manner in which
a Vienna detective named Degen, q
few months ago, followed one Wehrl-
Elm, who had disposed in Vienna of
enormous quantities of counterfeit
Austrian treasury notes manufactured
in New York, by one Raffelly, who
since transferred his field Corporations
from this city to Havana. Wehrlein
had SIS, 900 in his possession upon his
arrival in this city ;but he was addict
ed to gambling, and Degcn, the Aus
trian detective, fell in with him when
he had lost nearly every cent in faro
bank on the Bowery. Degen managed
to ingratiate himself with the counter
feiter's tool to such an extent that the
latter, after brief acquaintance, re-
posed in him almost unlimited conf
dence, and informed the detectives that
Raffelly, in Havana, had completed a
|set of plates for printing counterfeit
It63iun treasury notes, and that he
(Wehrlein) was sh0Ftly to take them to
Turin, Milan and FloreAce. Degen
persuaded Wehrlein to take him ai0ng
to Cuba and thence the two started in
the latter part of May for Europe
Upon landing at Havre, Wehrlein was
arrested and taken in irons to Vienna,
where he now waits his trial, the Aus
trian government have demanded Baf-
felly's extradition from the King OF
Spain. Degen received an order from
::tAntr fngrmrI.yr Mrnt " finn 1ne -irati
worked mp the case.
Another case is that of two men.
named Borwig and Helfert, who were
arrested in Hamburg with large
quantity of forged notes of the Ros-
tocker bank, wealthy North German
concern, in their possession. They
said, at their examination, that the
plates had been made in New York,
but they stubbornly refused to give
the name of the engraver. They now
languish in the State prison at Butzow,
to which they have been sent for seven
years. at-
The Bavarian government, too, has
succeeded in capturing in Baltimore a
fellow named Wollinger, who had de-
posted with clearinghouse in Nh
remburg seven thousand dollars worth
of forged Bavarian notes. These Ba-
varian notes are very poorly gotten up,
and hence easily counterfeifed. The
fact that those deposited by Wollinger
at Nnremburg were not genuine were
not discovered for some time after they
had been presented for redemption at
the royal Department of Finance
When the police we've informed of the
discovery, WOllinger had already fed
to the United States. Two detectives
followed him to this country, and after
a long and wearisome chase overlook
him at Baltimore, and persuaded him
to accompany them to England. Upon
their arrival in Southampton, they
took him in custody and conveyed him
to Nuremburg. He was offered an inn
mediate release provided he would
give clew as to the engravers of the
nIntn huf ha rafusoH ~ r,,oI-a o,,o Iss
closures except stating that the plates
had been made in New York, and that
they had probably been destroyed by
this time.
The most recent case that has been
discovered in this respect is that of the
Haytien treasury note forgery. The
treasury notes OF the Haytien govern
ment are printed in wretched style on
ordinary printing paper, and anybody
almost is able to counterfeit them.-
This had been done by party in New
York, as yet unknown, who succeeded
in flooding the West Indies Islands
with the spurious currency. The case
is now In the hands of experienced de-
teetives, who assert that they will have
no difficulty in ferreting out the coun-
terfeiter and his assistants.
Why Democrats are fer Greeley.
An old Democrat i'm Michigan, who
is well posted in regard to the tender
sympathy which Greeley has hereto
fore felt toward the Democratic party,
thus ironically answers the question
"Why Democrats should support Gree.
ley.s He says: