Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-10-30
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Extensive Raid on COunterfeiterS.

Warrants having been issued from the
Department of Justice in Washington, for the
arrest of some ninety counterfeitors and their
accomplices in East Tennessee and Western
North Carolina, on the 21st instant, govern
ment Marshals made simultaneous arrests of
a large number of persons in both States.
Those implicated consist of lawyers, doctors,
justices of the peace, post-masters, United
States deputy marshals, clerks of courts aud
numerous merchants. The secret service bu-
reau have had the case in hand and been
working it up" for the past five months.
The counterfeiting area embraced over one
hundred and twenty-five miles, and the arrests
we're made by mounted men. Those arrested
in Tennessee were taken to Knoxville; and
those arrested in North Carolina, it is under
stood, will be taken to Greensboro.
The Charlotte Observer of Saturday has the
following:
"On Wednesday, according to the informa-
ton in our possession, Messrs. John Moore
and Washington Brawley, both Of them mon
eyed men living in the southern part of Ire
dell county, were indicted by secret detectives
in the service of the United States, for passing
counterfeit money. Our informant states
that facts are in the possession of the detec-
tives which will implicate large number of
persons, some of then. prominent and highly
esteemed citizens. We learn further that it
is believed, ifnot known, that there are gangs
of counterfeiters in the counties of Cabarrus,
Mecklenburg, Iredell, Rowan, Wilkes, and a
number of other western counties. The gen.
tleman from whom we get the information of
the arrest of the parties named, tells US that
it is rumored that the information leading to
the arrests spoken of, was given the officers by
one King, citizen of Cabarrus county, who
was himself member of the band, and who
had informed on the others"
A dispatch from Greensboro, dated the
22nd, says:
"Ei ght counterfeiters were brought in to-day
by the officers of Col. Whitley, chief the Uni
ted States secret service, and will be tried to-
morrow before United States Commissioner
P. r. Harden. They are said to be men of
character and prominence, but l withhold
their names for the present, by request of the
officers, as there are more arrests to be made.
The officers inform me that about fifty more
will arrive at Asheville tonight, en- route to
Greensboro. These men were picked up
mostly in the mountainous regions of Cherokee
and Ashe counties, of this State. One of the
number brought here to-day was, it is said,
foreman of the grand jury of Rowan county,
and was arrested at Salisbury yesterday, while
in court A quantity of two-and-a-halfdol-
lar counterfeit gold pieces were found in the
trunks of some of these men, and the coin very
closely resembles the genuine except in
weight. They are all dated 1851. The work
of arrcsting is ssaid to be just begun"
A second dispatch from Greensboro, dated
the 25th, says four additional arrests have
been made ofpersons alleged to be interested
in counterfciting. The expeditions sent from
Asheville, having to traverse an area of 500
square miles, have not yet been heard from.
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