The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02
CoUNTERFEIrERs CAUGHT

CoUNTERFEITERs CAUGHT.
THE DETECTIVES IN cINcISSAr1-rHr PEE.
TRADE. Ans
Inc Cincinnati Enquirer of the SOth con-
tains the following account of a baul Of
counierfeiters In that city: The largest and
soout The only thorough shake the counts,-
,es OF Cincinnati ever got they received
yesterday rom i've detectives of IIncls
- Ino secre. service. This city Of Cincinnati
hnown as q great Distributing point Tor
counterieiters, that b the bills corse here ~
oo eoiu out 10 the showers or to small desl
ears. Very little of the sbovtne -
biI1s mere by smart men. The
F F 70, kentucky West Virginia,
plains OF Texas, in fact nearly the whoie
Sontn and the praries of.be Far wet So,r,
tne market In which these dealers MAJ i;s-
ppsn OF tneir vile wares. Some time Ia.t
ieys secret forces made Sescant 49,. !.
gang OF counterfeit dealers in PAST n =
nessee and West North Garoiina snraa1
over territory nearly two hundred niIae
iong ana hundred and fifty miles wide,
1n ita .ne developments Of six months
mountains was the fact thai The sr,,s;o',o
money came from Ohio. This v,o~f rrob
ably directed the attention of the traasnr,,
department to Cincinnati, Ethich. ss has
already been stated, has an unenyiable nenr--
tstlon Tor that sort Of work. ovr;,,o- ent;ras.,
To the fact of her geographical nnsit;or LIZ
reference to the field in which the had
money circulates best. Accor,lin0lv a e.
months ago, five detectives were sent 20
Sincinnatito go to the bottom of the business
themselves knew oftbeir pre.enco. Es W.
tneir boarding place they registeree1 and are
still known under "
ASSUMED NAMES
The chief Of police was not aware. NJ thea
presence. In various ways they were ,,te,-
Tered with by the police, unwittinelv 20 Ia
sure, but no interference succeeded N
tracing from them their mission and true
character. Some Of these men have bean
mere eight or nine months, but the ereatsr
number OF the present force have operate6
only as many weeks. How they worked ia
professional secret. but 1t is quite another
thing what they ACCOMPLISHED The 80 -
arresting began early Thursday evep;na III "a
continued very quietly until midnight
when SIX men were slowed away undsr
guard in the Office of the L. s marsh-I
early yesterday morning IL began again.
anu an auueu TWO more men and two women to
the number. The most serious mos
troublesome, perIlous and exciting arrest
was that of George Stoppelcsmn No -
Water street. at his saloon Depnty MarshaI
A. Gardner and four OF the five detectives
Sent 70 ms saloon. Stoppelkamp had his
snPpeTs Oh. he went up stairs very quietly
with the detectives to exchange them for
boots. When he came down he smoke sonaa-
thing in German to his bar-k eeper At that
moment little man ehucked him under the
chm with bus elbow, two others handcuffed
him, and Marshal Gardner hustled
him along Water TO Vine to the custom
honse. Yesterday morning the work conn
menced afresh. bright and early. MolIie
Brown, No. 40 Longworth street; Jennie
rwitchell, No. 275 Ninth street; Bill Beck
ley, and, as the tenth prisoner James r.
Earle, the oyster opener at the Buckeve
dining saloon on Vine street, below Woods
Theater. Later in the day John McNeilar
was added to the Inst, making the humber
eleven. George Stoppelkamp is a saloon
keeper, worth in property not less than
$4,000. He is in for selling fiftv-eent
counterfeit fractional currency. Jennie
rHltchell is smart distributor of counter
felt. She also dealt in
FIFTY CENT CURRENCY,
Moliie Brown is noted as having been the
mistress of Charles Ulrieh, the celebrated
counterfeit plate engrsver sent from this
city for eleven years for that crime. She
dealt in twenty dollar bills and fifty cent
P'SOSo' "oSh DCNOep, Dill GOrOOQ, JOln
Mills, italian Jack" or e. Stella. John
Mcclellan and James T. Earle, all dealt in
hfty-cent money. Some Of the detectives
have bought from him while he was
opening oysters at the Buckeye
when be sand he had as much as $500 OF the
queer" upon him. Bill Beckley and
John k-eutZinger dealt in the twenty-dol-
lar greenbacks, and Kreutzinger added the
sale OF fifty cents pieces to his larger busi-
ness. In each of the fifty cent cases the
detectives have evidence that fifty dellars
have been sold and passed. Against Mollie
Brown they have evidence of the selling Of
two twenty dollar bills, and In the cases of
Beckley and Kreutzinger the selling of Eve
twenty dollar bills each. The question is
sometimes ask how such immense sums
can find circulation? 1t finds a field
in the South and far West. Texas
has been so flooded with IL that the peo-
pie accepted and used it. unable TO defend
themselves until the United States SET ret
service made a raid on the business In
North Carolina and Tennessee, dealers
bought live stock and produce from farmers
and turned their purchases into good money.
These people having few transactions out
side other cwn immediate neigh DO rhoods
and being in the habit of boarding money
would be slow in exposing the kuavery.
When one issue is detected another is made
soon after. and the story is repeated. There
is no way of defending the people against
this fraud so good as an efficient detective
system.