The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-10-22
rWoshtne.on Republican, .2lst.

Washington Republican, 21st.1
One of the most extended raids ever or
ganized against counterfeiters in this coun-
try has just been brought to successful
issue ir the arrest of about seventy persons
; In Eastern Tennessee and Western North
I Carolina, which States have for several
| months past been orerrun with, this class
of criminals. e. -.
The attention Of the Treasury Department
had been called to the presence OF these vio-
! lators of the law through numerous letters
received from the best citizens of the dis
| tricts above mentioned, aud Secretary Rich
ardson determined that the gangs should be
| broken up. A series of operations was de-
cided upon, and conducted under the imme-
! diate supervision Of Colonel Whitley, Chief
| of the United States Secret Service, with the
! active cooperation of the Attorney. General,
| who issued instructions to the United States
marshals of the several districts to appoint
/ as many special deputies to aid in making
| the arrests as the eXigencies of the case might
| require.
Upon beginning his operations Colonel
| Whitley learned that the counterfeiters were
banded together in: Elv .4-..i .-.a1-g
| -r-.--. - ORGANIZED GANGS; #h@ a
that they lived in remote localities, many of
! them in the mountain districts. The labor
| of reaching them was one of time and pa
| thence, requiring the services of men who
| were brave, energetic, and accustomed to
| hardship. The very best men Of the force were
accordingly selected for the duty, and one
after another made their way to the infested
! districts, some us tobacco-traders, some as
spectators in land, others as dealers in illicit
whiskey, and others rs tramps going through
the country, in seedy garments, and seeking
a days employment here and there where
they could obtain it. In these various capa-
cities the secref-service officers were entirely
| successful. They gained he confidence OF
/ the counterfeiters to an unlimited extent;
ate, drank, and slept with them, and bought
Aleir bogus money at satisfactory prices,
without arousng breath of suspicion as to
their real character.
| HOW THEY WERE DISCOVERED.
To accomplish this, several months Of val
liable time was consumed, as the gangs were
| scattered ut distances of from forty to one
| hundred and twenty miles apart, away from
| the railroad lines, and it was no easy or de-
| sirable task to gain access to them, make
their acquaintance, 60 with them to their
homes, and become so thoroughly familiar
| with them as to be intrusted with their most
valuable secrets. Nor were the criminals
altogether OF that class of the community
| who could plead ignorance of the law which
they were violating with so much seeming
impunity. They numbered among them
doctors, lawyers, magistrates, postmasters,
deputy United States marshals, school teach
ers, clerks Of courts, storekecpers, and other
tradesmen. Some Of them were men of
wealth and influence Zone being the prose-
cutting attorney for the people in the city of
KnoXviile), who bad aided in vitating the
currency to such an extent as to ruin many
of the poorer classes.
PREPARING FOR THE CAPTURE.
=! As fast as the evidence was obtained
against the accused it was lodged in the
| hands of United States Attorney George
| Andrews, of the eastern district of Tennes-
see, and United States Attorney Y. S. Lusk,
| of The western district of North Carolina,
both Of whom gave their earnest coopera-
| ton to the work, and rendered efficient aid
in making the labors Of the secret-seryice
| men q complete success. AS the gangs In
both States were intimately connected 1t was
| deemed best that the movement looking to
| their arrest should be made simultaneously
in both districts. The expedition at Knox
vile was organized under Captain Evans,
United States marshal, a veteran Of the war,
Il
and seven on foot, all armed and provided
with five. days rations. That in the west
ern district of North Carolina was organized
under Robert III. Douglas, United States
marshal, and comprised twenty.tour mount
ed men, also armed and rationed. These
SQUADS were subdvided so as to make the
descent in several places.
l. Sunday the 18th Instant was.the day fixed
for the movement, and on the evening OF
that day the mounted men quietly lett Knox
| Vile for Union and Granger counties, while
the others took the cars for Carriers depot,
on the line of the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia railroad. Both these squads
were accompanied By the secret.servics men,
who acted as guides over the roads, and also
in pointing out the residences of the accused
PARTIES, Meantime the marshal took mea-
sures to apprehend certain persons in the
| city of Knoxville who were implicated as
dealers in the nefarious stuff, but whose ar
| rests could not be effected until the expedt-
ton had left the country. Particulars OF
the raid In North Carolina have not yet fully
come to hand, owing 10 the more extended
area of country TO be traVersetl. IL Is an
ticipated, however, that the raid there VIII!
be US successful as in Eastern tennessee, ana
that the operations of the secret-servlce men
in both localities will result in the exterml-
nation of the worst gangs OF criminals that
ever infested these States.
| Especial telegram to the Dispatch.]
MORE ARREsTs-PRoHlNENT PRISONERS BAILED.
! KNOXVILLE, Tenn, October 21.-Eight
more prisoners arrived here to-day In charge
of United States detective and marshal
from Union and Granger counties. A. A.
Snodderly, present deputy county court
clerk OF Union county and an ex-legislator
under Brownlow's administration, and
Major J. NJ. Sawyer United States marshal
from Granger county, were among the num-
ber The Others were Of little prominence.
SO far the arrests have been made with
! great success and with much credit to the
detectives and marshals.1 Those arrested IN
! the mountains of North Carolioa will be
; taken to Asheyille and Greensboro. The
detectives and marshals of the extreme in
! terror counties .of Eastern Tennessee have
] not returned. A. = = z. ----.-.---.
The ignorant people Of the country, have
been more or less swindled, and the towns
are hooded with fractional fitty.cent counter
feits. The ff,y-dollar eounterfeits we're
passed generally with the.country people. ;:
Nine of the mos. prominent prisoners
were ,bailed to-day-each i'd ,ooe s,,1 '..' r
/ The post. office at Ferry Point, Norfolk
! county, Va. Is discontinued because not
needed {; the papers go to Norfolk. a new
post-ofice Is established at Shockoe enuLen,
j P;ttsrlyania county, Va, on the route rom