Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-10-29
NORTH CAROLINA COUSTERFElrERs.
A BunglinE Rald-Arrest of n Foreman of
Grand Jury-Greed OF the People for
Coin. ..... ....... ......
GREENSBORO, N. c., Oct. %, 1873.

| Granu Jury-Greeu OF the PeOplc IOr
| Coin. .r... ..
GREENSBORO, N. c., Oct. %, 1878.
The exploits of the Secret Service men
am ong the queersmen and the arrest of
the latter are the sensation and excitement
of the hour. Unfortunately, however, for
! the public good, there has been uncalled
| for delay and the grossest mismanagement
| in affecting the arrests of the counterfeit
ers in this State. The original and care
| fully matured plan determined upon in
general consultation by the Secret Service
! corps at Knoxville-that of making gem
| eral and concerted descent on Monday
| has been departed from, and the prospect
now is that quite a number of the coun-
terfeiters will escape. The United States
Marshal here did not act with the prompt
ness secrecy, and termination The occa-
sion required though urged to do so by
the Secret Service men in this section, and
hence the delay and uncertainty about the
arrests. Added to this the deputy marshals
sent to make the arrests were selected from
the very worst material, some of them be
ing careless, cowardly, and of moral
status that evokes the contempt of all hon
est man. No action was taken here until
Tuesday, and then only partial move
ment was made. Two squads OF deputy
marshals, accompanied by Secret Service
men, were dispatched to the counties of
Cabarrus and Rowan, where arrests were
ulduO W JIlG uullDbT VI ulH6, JuISC VI
whom escaped or were lost after their cap
ture. The most singular of these is the
arrest of William A. HOuck, wealthy
man at Salisbury, where he was at the
time foreman of the Grand Jury at the
State Circuit Court. When it was discov-
cred by the State authorities that United
States Marshal had laid violent hands on
so important civil functionary as
THE FOREMAN OF THE GRAND JURY,
~ ho
Arrest of the Deputy Marshal for contempt of
court. The latter, with more than ordinary
zeal and determination, retained bis pris-
oner, notwithstanding, and when brought
into Court exhibited rs his justification for
arresting the iuryman Uncle Sans war
rant. Upon this the Marshal was released
upon his own recOgniZance, and the jury
man, being sadly required to make an
indictment, was brought before United
States Commissioner and was bailed in the
sum of $1,000 to appear. Flynn S. Brad
shaw was arrested at his residence, five
miles from China Grove depot, in Rowan
county, having on his person two half dol
lar and two gold dollar counterfeit coins.
David Arnhart, a farmer of responsibility,
was captured about fourteen miles from
Salisbury, but while en- route to that city
gave the Marshal the slip, too, and was
lost j. y. Loudrey and G. Il. Loudrey,
both tobacco spectators and farmers in
homes, the former in a field, the latter at
his house. While the former was being
conducted to the house he requested the
innocent officer to allow him to return to
the field for his basket The humane
Marshal granted the permisson; but
Loudly failing to appreciate his kindness,
vanished and is gone. On the person and
in the trunk of the remaining Loudrey
the officers found $3.50 in counterfeit gold
coins of the denominations of one, two
and half and five dollars and a box full
of cancelled tobacco stamps. Hewas taken
safely to Salisbury, where he was bailed in
the sum of $4,000. w. r.. Blackwelder, q
farmer living six miles from Concord sta
ton, on the North Carolina Railroad, in
Calbarrus county, was quietly arrested at
his residence while dining with his family.
He had 50 legal tender cOunterfeit.whcn
arrested. He was also bailed in 5000. Ed
ward and David Lipe, both farmers in
Calbarrus county, were arrested at their
homes, where quantity of base coin and
queer currency was found. Both were
bailed in s. ,000 Joseph Baker,
A NOTORIOUS DEALER IN THE BOGUS CUR
RENCY
and base coin his whole lifetime, was ar
rested in Rowan county and taken to
Salisbury to hotel for the night, from
which he skillfully escaped through back
way. Squads sent to Rockingham, Wilkes
anu Wdtd que COuuJleS nave uOU YET re-
turned, and the success of their mission
remains uncertain. / am told there has
been an intense greed among the people in
this section to obtain coin. They make
any and every sacrifice to get hold of it,
and then hide it and hoard it with the
jealousy of misers. No attention whatev-
er is paid to the character of the coin, so it
is coin, and it is now believed that i'm
mense quantities of the spurious specie is
hid in all sorts of secret places by the peO-
pie throughout the entire section of West
ern North Carolina.
MORE ARRESTS.
The Herald of the 25th, one day later
than the first report, says that one of the
parties-JOseph Baker-who escaped was
recaptured. The Asheville expedition had
to travel over an area of five hundred miles
and had not yet reported on the 25th. The
HcraId says:
Among the arrested parties brought in
on that day was William r. Black, of Mad
ison, Rockingham county, and the leader
of the gang known as Blacks. He is
about eighty-iive years of age, and owns
most Of the town in which he lives, his es-
! timated wealth being about $4,000 Black
| is reported to have had dealings in the
'queerN his entire lifetime, and il is sup
posed it was by this means he accumulated
his present wealth. 1t is related Of him
that he never failed to take back and re-
deem in genuine currency any counterfeits