The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-22
Great Haul Of Counterfeiiers.
SUCCESS OF DETECTIVE OFFICERS.
NrM YORK. Oct. 81.

New YoRK, Oct 81.
The government marshals in East Ten
nessee and Western North Carolina made
simultaneous arrests on Monday, of a
large number of persons engaged in the
sale of and passing counterfeit money.
The secret service detectives have been on
the track Of their victims for the past five
months The East Tennessee prisoners
were brought to Knoxville.
The following additional particulars
have been received. The crusade was the
most extended, strategic and wel-drected
ever organized, and resulted in the arrest
of about sixty outlaws, with quite num-
Der yet TO be heard from. The despera-
does belong in the main to a counterfeiting
fraternity who are bound together by fear
ul oaths and deadly ties known only to
themselves, and they have spread broadcast
their bogus issues to such an extent as to
vitiatc the genuine circulating medium
nearly onc-third, and in some instances
to well nigh bankrupt smaller merchants
and tradespeople. After consultation by
the authorities at Washington it was deter
mined to place the entire matter in the hands
of Col. Whitley, chief of the United
States secret service corps by whom. with
the assistance of Attorney General Will
liams, plans were matured to entrap and
capture the guilty party. Whitley Sc.
lected from his corps a number of his most
experienced officers. Tie secret service
officers obtained the confidence of counter
fciters, and communicated their dungs to
the district attorneys at Knoxville, Tenn,
and Aslyille, n. G. The officers became
aware of the organization of counterfeiters
into distinct and separate gangs. all of
them cooperating and working together,
and each gang numbering five to eight
members, reckless, determined and thor
oughly armed. Each gang was fully aware
of the movements of the other and COM
munica,ion, such as to enable them to
summon aid, at short notice. Becoming
communicative, the counterfeitcrs told
where Illicit money was made. 1t come
direct from Ohio, and was in denominations
of fifty cent fractional currency, ten
dollar national bank notes, and fifty dollar
United States legal tenders of the series of
go 1t was transported into Tennessee
and North Carolina the same as any other
commodity by wholesale jobbers and deal
ers with regularity and precision, and sup
piled to customers and friends in sums to suit
according to demands of trade. In addi-
ton to currency trade, there were also ex-
tensiyc dealings in counterfeit Mexican
dollars, which was principally put off on
travellers and emigrants TO Texas and the
far west. This money was manufac-
turcd in Kentucky. The transac-
tons in both kinds of money was cnor-
nous. The criminals include men in every
station in life, lawyers, doctors, justices of
the peace, postmasters, United States depu-
ty marshals, clerks of courts and numerous
merchants. Sufficient evidence as to the
guilt of the parties having been obtained to
justify action on the part of the govern
mcnt warrants of arrests to the number of
ninety were issued by United States dis
trict attorneys in East Tennessee and West
North Carolina. Expeditions were organ
lied, mounted, armed and equipped, and
started. The territory embraced an area
of one hundred aud twenty-five miles long
by iifty-scyen broad. The ground in
North Carolina embraced an area of six
hundred square miles. The programme
was admirably carried out 1t is estimated
about scycnty-fye arrests in all have been
made