The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-10-30

/ Trapped Tkem-Ah Ex-Hember or
the Legislature and other UfIeIals
Engaged.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Oct q.
The excitement on our streets to-
day was intense, after our citizens
J found from the morning papers how
complete and comprehensive the plot
had been laid for the extermination OF
eOunterfeiters from among our MUST,
and how well the plans OF the detee-
tIves were being executed by the
United States Marshal and his assis-
tants. Groups could be seen at every
street corner discussing the ali absorb
ing topic OF the day, the counterfeit
ers. The excitement, however, reach
ed the highest pitch when the Deputy
Marshals from Union, Granger, and
Cooke counties arrived with another
squad OF prisoners numbering eight.
Among them were men who had
lived above suspicion heretofore, aud
one of them, Hon. A. A. SnodderIy, Is
an ex-member of the Legislature.
while another is Deputy Sheriff Of
! Union County, and another ex-DepQ-
ty Sheriff, while all connected were
men who stood high in social posi-
tons The following are the names Of
the prisoners, and-tbe counties from
which they were brought: Hon. A.
A. SnOdderly, Nicholas Sharp, J.J.
Sellers, Joel ). Myers, J. A. Wilson,
and r. G. Sharp, of Union County I;
]. NJ. Savyers, of Granger County !;
and NJ. G. MeCisnnahsn, Of Cooke
County.
They were brought before the Com
missioner, H. NJ. Aiken, and almost
the entire day was consumed by them
in enieavOring to give bond. Only
two succeeded, viz Hon A. A.
SnOdderly and J. NJ. SIwyers. The
remainder will be kept In custody by
the Marshal, and will doubtless make
another attempt Tomorrow to give
bond. This makes eighteen arrested
in East Tennessee, 50 far as heard
from. There are number Of Assist
ant MsTshals out yet, and more pris-
Oners are expected. 1--we understand
the chief detective correctly, there
have been warrants Issued for the ar
rest OF nearly double that number in
| East Tennessee. In a conversation
With several members OF the United
States Secret Service we gathered the
following facts as TO their operations
ard the manner in which they en-
trapped their victims: One Of the
posse vas dispatched TO this city bout
the 1st of April to work up this mat
ter, as numerous complaints had been
filed with the lre..su-y Department
I in regard tn an abundance of counter
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this district. His first movement was
TO discover i'm what locality it was to
be found most abundantly. He as
esrtained that Union County seemed
tn be headquarters Tor the 'iqueer"
aud next found trusty assistant. 1t
will be remembe bered that the detective
represented himself as the agent of q
brewery aud a tobacco house. The
two parties above spoken of then en-
tered that county, and by cautiously
| playing the role of cOunterfeiters and
Jail birds, they worked themselves in
to the confidence of the class of peo-
pie they were after.
Their next move was to purchase
some of the money from suspected
parties. They approached the man
they considered to be one of the ring
leaders, and representing that they
were about out Of the 'queer," sue
ceeded. SIS in fifty cent currency, Of
the Lincoln heads, for Sl2 so, also SIS
| fifty cent Stanton heads, for $12 80,
and a $50 greenbaek bill Of the series
of lS69-this was all they could get
from him at the time, but he prom
ised soon to supply them with any
quantity. They made arrangements
then with him that on q certain day
he was to furnish them with $4,000
t) 200, or more, If they desired it.
From this party they received the
names of the other parties, and their
work in that county was comparative
/ ly light, as they soon effected pur-
ehases from all of them.
From these parties they loaned of
parties in Knoxville, an account OF
whose arrest gave in q former letter,
and their next step was to draw them
Rdfee' R6rked hftnseif1nt6 tfeif G0o5d
graces, and then introduced his part
ner to make the purchases. Having
completed this work, only one of the
secret force remained in the city to
watch the movements, while the
| other was sent to other points to work
up other cases.
/ In the meantime Information had
been received in regard to counterfeit
] money in Carter County, and a secret
service man was sent to that point.
\ His experience is rich and varied,
/ and it took about three months for him
to work himself into favor with the
cOunterfeiters of that county. The
first man he approached on the sub
jeet, he had been working Oh his farm
and plOwed for him, aud represented
himself as blockade tobacco mer-
chant, &c. The old man bit, and sold
him hundred dollars, promising 10
furnish any quantity that the de-
tective, alias tobacco trader, might
want From him he learned the
name of the other dealers in counter
felt money in the county, and his work
was then comparatively easy, as in q
snort time he had purchased some OF
the "queer" from every one of them.
So his work was completed, and the
trap ready to be sprung.
! A few weeks back one Of the chiefs
of the Secret Service Department
I made his appearances in this city, and
examining the evidence against
the parties arrested in this city, be
found that the evidence against one
of them was not sufficient, in his
mind, and another net was spread, in
to which the counterfeiter neatly
walked. The detective purchased a
large lot of the genuine fifty cents cur
rency Of the new issue, and then sent
one Of his assistants, who was taken
for counterfeiter by the man in qUes-
tion, and who represented to him
that friend Of his was on his way to
Texas and had large lot of splendid
counterfeit halves, which he desired
to exchange OFsOme counterfeit Mex.
lean silver dollars our East Tennes-
seean was suspieiOned of dealing in.
The man examined the currency and
was well pleased, engaging some, at
the same time agreeing to furnish the
detective with $1,000 Of the counter.
felt silver. To close the trade, the de.
tectiye purchased q counterfeit fifty
dollar bill for SIS in good money
This completed the entire arrange.
ments, and the trap was sprung, al
before mentioned, and the partial re
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