The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-19
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Chr 8utland Daily Globe.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1873.
Correspondence OF n. Y. World.
COUyTERFEITING.
NJ the IHeadquartcrs-W u Sail
Lake Wan Knows About IL.

States, and as i had n notion that the new
5000 bills which Father Spinner refuses to
accept at the Treasury were made in this
city, called to- day upon man who could
tell me all about it.
GLOW long, said |, 'has Salt Lake City
been a rendezvous for these countcrfcitcrs :"
About two years"
Glow many of them are thcrc?"
Perhaps there are a dozen here now"
"What part Of the Territory is their
headquarters !"
"Sat Lake City,
"When did you last see any quantity of
the coun,erfets!'
About year ago. A man came to me
then and showed me hatful of So and so
grcenbacks and said he had plenty of that
stuff ! notified United States District At
tOrney Bates, but he said there was no way
to get at them, and didn't pay much attcn-
ton to it."
Didn't he make any effort to arrc.,
these counterfcits!"
Gle got out warrants for two of them
but didn't offer to pay enough so any one
could make expenses, and so nothing wa
ever done about it. We can't afford to 90
into the business on nothing. Some folks
think it is an officers duty, but even they
won't work without pay. A deputy mar
shall from San Francisco came here rcd-hot
four letters to Washington to the Depart
mcnt, but got no answer, and soon found
out that it wouldn't pay lie told me Con-
gress only appropriated enough money to
keep one detective at work on the coast
and he stays in San Francisco
GLOW much of this stuff has been PIT in
circulation from this point!
Forty or fifty thousand dollars, | should
suppose. There's lots of it in circulation
here. Never saw any larger than 81 and
SO. If detectives come here its easy put
ting them on the track
is it made here?"
''Well, ! think not much. \ fellow hy
the name of Smith told me they make it
here. lie showed me a man he said made
grcenbackS. That man looked like II
miner. But we couldn't make any money
out of it, so never said anything outside.
1t is made mostly in New York. and sent
out here TO be showed
''Who shoves it 2"
cob, these men you see on Main street
hanging around the Stock Board Ga drink
ing saloon) and loafing about. They wear
boiled shirts, are hightoned, put on heap
of style They come from New York and
San Francisco. Most of them are gam
blcrs. There are two or three that keep
icwelry stores, just as a blind. It's the
easiest thing in the world to find them out
only let them come on here with their war.
rants and pay fellow But when found
| couldn't get any satisfaction from Bates
and those fellows, | thought it was none of
my business, and so never looked the mat
ter up much since.
''Do you believe the gang here has any
thing to do with the counterfeit $500 Treas
ury notes."
II shouldn't be surprised. think they
rr1s'easy phohgnro niTu' Juror the boys
will YOU inquire into this or let me
know some one | can talk with about it Z"
"Yes, will find out and inform you but
it is best to keep pretty shady about these
things. mans life isn't worth much here
anyhow, and if these fellows find any one
beiraying them he's gone up
care you afraid of them?"
"Well, ! came here in early days. |
didn't use to be scary; but | am afraid now
have looked down n siX-shooter a good
many times out here. One time fellow
had bead on me, and his pistol cooked for
half an hour, and didn't know it. don't
want any more of that. / don't want to be
known in this. You won't publish my
1 name?"
Certainly not | have seen enough of
y loose shooting here to mention no names"
about two weeks ago a man came and
said these fellows were playing me the
worst way. They were getting me to help
them. and all the time they were putting up
jobs. lie says, Il am going to tell YOU,
: but it will cost your life to say anything
about it,. lie gave me the names of party
who then had killed a beef and had jerketi
it to travel with, and they are out now
II They haven't come back yet. These men
here know all about these stage robberies
about the country. They often tell me
when there's going to be one. | have got
some of them out of scrapes AID they tell
me so can make something, but it don't
pay. There is too much risk. knew all
c about that Idaho stage robbery, at Black
= Rock They didn't mean to shoot any one
at first. But they had to change their
plans"
- How were they going to do
" Some of them were going to be passen-
gers in the coach that had the gold-dust.
When they stopped ut the station to change
!. horses, Sc, they were going to get til,
Wclls-Fargo box, and put in imitation gold
dust that the rest would have ready, and
carry of the real stuff. They could hav,
n done ii, hut the imitation didn't get around
in time
"Do they make bogus gold-dust? Whcr,
do they do that"
Il ION, all about here. They have the
stun here. They made this lot down on
the Jordan. close to town last summer
.s ''What do they use!'
I'd They find the material here. Ii is mad,
mostly of brass, | think. You can tell il
only by acid, or by weighing. Sevcra
years ago | knew man who stole the hub
nj bands of new buggy one of these Nor.
mons had just brought here, and he mad,
50 them up into the finest kind of dust "
a. "Do the Mormons know about thcs,
- counterfeitcrs =