The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-07-19

own sole guilt in the affair, but directed tn,
| officers to the place where he had conceales
the apparatus with which the forgery had
been committed. The girl was discharged
from custody, and Oakley was sentenced t.
penal servitude for long term. He was
| SENT TO BOTANY BAY,
Australia, where he adopted the name o
Pete Mccartney. After serving five year
of his sentence he conspired with numbel
Of the more desperate convicts in the region
where he was at work, to overpower tn,
guard and seize upon an English sailing yes
sci at anchor on the coast. The enterprise
was completely successful. The convict.
armed with shovels and pickaxes and head
ed by their youthful but determined leader,
rushed upon the guard at given sigma
and murdered twelve of them, with loss
| Of but three of their number. Aiming
themselves with the weapons of the guard,
the convicts then fastened to the coast and
signalled the ship. boat was put off to
the shore to learn the meaning of the sig
| nails, and when it landed the convicts rush
ed upon its occupants and under threat of
instant death to all unless their demands
we're complied with, were taken aboard the
ship. After the last boat load had been
hoisted up the ships side the vessel weighed
anchor and set sail for the western coast of
America Several of the convicts were old
seafarers and used their knowledge for the
common veal There were some among
their number, including Mccartney, who
were apprehensive of being betrayed by
the ships crew in case they should meet a
British man of war, and diabolical COM
pact was therefore entered into between the
escaped convicts to
MURDER THEIR REsCUKRs
as soon as they came sufficiently near the
California coast to warrant the belief that
they could reach it unaided.
The plot was kept very secret until the
hour of its fulfillment which was midnight.
when they were in easy sail of the Golden
Horn The sailors were attacked in their
hammocks and not man of them escaped.
After the butchery had been completed the
bodies were clad in convict uniform and
thrown overheard to the sharks. The
murderers then held on their way until in
sight of land when they showed off in boats
for the desired haven, after previously set
ling FIRE to the vessel. They landed about
fifty miles below San Francisco, and being
clad in the uniforms of the murdered sea-
men they were enabled to pursue their way
o the nearest gold mines without being par
icularly observed.
Mccartney separated from the band at
his stage of the proceedings as. with his
labitual caution, he feared betrayal at their
lands. After rough life among the mines |
# several months duration, he went to San |
and
OPENED FARO BANK,
which he managed with success until the |
he cause of the south, and as a Lieutenant |
le made his name terror in Kansas, Mis- |
ouri and the Indian Territory. In the Au-
umn Of 1864 he associated him
elf with a gang Of counterfeiters
whose operations have extended over
very portion Of the Western, Mid
lie and Southern States, and have for years |
axed the best energies of the Secret Ser |
ice, Pinkerton's Detective Agency, and the |
ocal police of every city, town and hamlet |
n such States as Ohio, Illinois and Missouri. |
o keep under any degree of control. Nc
;artney Is one of the best workmen en-
oloyed in the manufacturing of the "queer" |
n this country, and
IS "sHOvER" OF THE SPURIOUS PAPER |
lie has no rival. He is always flush of mon |
y and liberal in its use. As consequence |
# these peculiarties he is harrassed inces- |
antly, and is no more the possessor of |
home than is the Wandering Jew.
He has mistresses in every city, and |
whenever he gets into trouble the entire !
of counterfeiters, forgers and |
.vnrk chonllor 10 al l.
half. His escapes are generally due to his |
sxtravagant use OF money, as, for instance,
when in the Autumn of 1870, he was ar
ested in CINCINNATI, he found his cell door |
opened one night and quietly walked out of |
he police station house, forgetting in his
hurry to take with him the s., 200 in good |
money which was in possession of the |
lieutenant on duty. He has never yet |
allied for that money, and the officers have
lever been able to explain what became Of |
HE STORY OF M'cARrNEY's LAST ESCAPE |
FROM MOVING TRAIN.
The Galveston Ners Of the 21st, has the |
he following, concerning this same desper
tie character. Our dispatch from Willie |
his morning announces the escape of Pete !
ct.artney, the notorious counterfeiter.
which exploit took place night before last,
lille the train was in motion, near Willis. |
passenger who was on the same train |
With Mccartney called at the Ners office |
asst night, and gave some few particulars of |
he occurrence.
Mccartney was being conveyed from Ty-
er to Austin, at which latter place his trial |
vas about to come of. He was guarded BY |
our men, it is stated, two of whom were |
Deputy United States Marsnels. When the
rain stopped at Palestine some one who re-
ognized him called out: ..Hello, Pete
They've got you again ~ "H-l!' said
'ete, 'they won't keep me long" And
Pete was right.
Upon the train were observed two strang-
rs, who remained closely about Mccartney
Turing the trip from Tyler, but who did not
inter into any particular conversation with
lin. They had box Of cigars along with
hem, some Of which they handed Mozart
ley. Mccartney took handfal, as if for
ature use, and put them in his pocket.
Toward the heel of the evening it is sup
'csed he invited his guard to smoke. and
opposition IS confirmed that the guard
moked. 1t was very easily done, but
h0rtlv afferv~ rds tha M.r.h>ls unuxf have |