The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-02
IMPORTANT ARREST AT BAL.
TIMORE.
Three Accomplished ScOundrels in
IIimbo.-The Fellows Who Have
Been Doing the Raised Check

Three Accomplished ScOundTeIs In
I.imbo.-The Fellows Who Have
Been Doing the Raised Check
Business.
baltimore, February 1.-ITenry c.
Comeys, Agent for Jay Cooke & Co.'S
National Lille Insurance Company of this
city DR.. s. Leroy Swonnstadt, and .Jas
A. Ludwig, dentist, of this city, were ar.
rested to-day by Smith, Pearson and West
detectives, as the parties who have been
passing raised checks on different banks
throughout tho country.
Conveys was identified by w. S. King,
teller OF the Pitt Banking Company al
Pittsburgh, Pa, as the party who pre.
sented check for $2,400 at their bank
November 9th and received the amount
This check was drawn by Daniel Wal.
lace, Of Pittsburgh, on the above bank,
payable to Amos White, McKeesport, Pa.
or order. On tho check for $24.5O, which
had had been raised to $2,4O0, the words
"or order" were erased, so that it read cor
bearer "
DR.. Swonnstadt was now identified by
MIR. Samuel, teller Of the Bank of Ken.
lucky at Louisville, rs the party who
presented check and received $3, GOO
on the 18th Of last December. The check
was drawn by Smyser, Milton & Co., pay.
able TO Amos White for $50 90, and had
been raised to $4,000. Swonnstadt. also
collector from the First National Bank of
Richmond, Va, on the 22d of September,
lost $500 on q check of G. Barksdale'
Treasurer Of the Gulley Mills, raised from
$3.50 48; also $1,000 from the Third M.
tional Bank of Cincinnati, on A check in
sHH favor a. Of Gould & Co, raised from
$SG 80. Mr. Ludwig, Collector from the
First National Bank at Washington, D,
T., on August /, lost $4,000 on a check
Drawn by Ross, Ray & Bros, raised
from 1856 TO- The Detective firm[
which has been on track of-these
parties for eight months, and have n iist
ot other raised checks amounting TO $5CI-
OOO paid by different banks to some ope-
ratiVes, but the bank officials were not
present to-day to identity the prisoners
Conveys and Swonnstadt were arrested al
a little past one o'clock to-day in the office
OF the National Life Insurance Company,
NO. II Postotfice avenue, and Ludwig on
the street. They were identified by the
bank officers. Before his arrest was
made letters were found in Comeys' nos.
session addressed TO w. B. Thomas &
Co., Philadelphia. Niller's was dated
Coultersville, February 2, advising them
OF shipment of so bushels Of wheat and
requesting their check in payment. The
letters were sigped John 0'Hankey.
1t is stated by the detectives that Lud.
wig is torger who manipulated checks
OF others and collected the money. II il
also positively asserted by the detectives
that they have evidence that the parties
were negotiating with and tempting A
young bank teller 10 pass check for
$4O,OOO. Conveys and Ludwig were ,his
afternoon handed over to officers from
Pennsylvania on rcquisition from the
Governor Ofthat State, and Swonnstadt TO
officers from New York, on rcquisitlon
from the Governor; and will leave 10.
night. The parties are natives of this
State, Conveys being from Carroll county,
and Ludwig and Swonnstadt from Fred.
erick county, and all, for some time, resi-.
dents oi this city, occupying respectable
social and business positions Ludwig,
the dentist, had his office ut No. 94 NORTH
Eutaw street, and DR.. Swonnstadt, phy-
slclan, at No. "a North Howard street.