The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-10-28
A GANG OF COUNTRFEITERS.

SUCCESSFUL SCHEME-A RAID ON TIE |
| RURAL INFLATIoNIsTs-THE RING |
LEADER IN PRISoN-A LARGE |
QUANTITY OF Dies, MATERIAL AND
| COUNTERFEIT CURRENCY CAPTURED |
BY THE DETECTIVES.
For more than six months past the rural |
districts Of Luzernc, Wyoming, Susquehan
ma, Carbon, Lehigh, Columbia and adjoin-
ing counties have been flooded with counter
felt currency, principally of the denomina-
tion of five dollar bills, and any quantity of
fve-cent nickels of spurious stamp. The
money makers were carrying on prosper
ing business, and combined the business of
conspring against Uncle Sans currency
with that of farming, so that they prospered
without interruption until the fatal fifth of
September when one of them wandered to
Scranton, and in the attempt to pass his
rag-money, fell into the relentless
CLUTCHES OF THE LAW.
This unlucky wight was named Chas.
y. Bush, a farm labOrer from Springville,
Wyoming county, who was detected in the
act of passing fifty-cent note i'll the Fifth
ward of this city, and handed over into
the custody of Officer Henry Lewis at the
instance of John Wagner, whom he sought
to victimize This occurred on Saturday,
and on the Monday following the rural
rag-money merchant was arrested by I.
S. Deputy Marshal j. w. Slocum on a
writ issued by U. S. Commissioner Eugene
w. Simrell of this city. This circum-
stance revealed the fact that counterfeit
ing was extensively carried on by
GANG OF CoUNTERFEITERs
; in Wyoming county, and that a horde of
indolent farm laborers was wandering
listlessly about the county towns sending
the spurious stuff broadcast throughout
the state Accordingly, on the seventh of
September, U. S. Deputy Marshal Slocum
arrested g. b. Camp, one of the most ac-
complished adopts in the art Of counter
feiting in the entire party, at is home
near Marcy's lake, Tunkhannock, on
charge of making and dealing in counter
felt money. Camps home gave every in
dication of his carrying on the business
extensively, and from information Dir.
Slocum received he proceeded to room
No. at the Packer House, Tunkhannock,
and there unearthed package of 5000
bills, entirely of the denomination of S5,
which had been hidden beneath the car
pet on the floor.
From information obtained from Camp
: a whole
e HORDE OF RAG-MONEY MERCHANTS
: in Wyoming county, was suspected, and
: several arrests followed, principally among
I farmers and farm laborers.
u A,,orrr fboca vroro Orvill Poll op1 ('ur
tbs Avery, arrested at early dawn on the
a. morning of the 9th of September, at three
o'clock, in their houses, situated in an
isolated wilderness between Tunkhannock
and Factoryville. The raid was made by
.t Deputy U. S. Marshal j. w. Slocum, as
sisted by j. W. Boice, chief-of-police o.
Scranton, and Officer c. j. Wright, o.
Tunkhannock. The party set out from
this city at late hour, and travelled dur
ing the night until they arrived at
THE coUTERFEITERs' NEST
at three o'clock. Bull was first arrested
i, and secured. In his possession was founc
a set of dies for making fve-cent nickels,
large quantity of nickel ore, and some base
material for mixing with it.
The prisoner stated that one occasion
rs while engaged in the process of money
an making, the metal became incorrigiblC
81 flew out of the melting pot and burne
him very seriously. From his home tn
officers proceeded to that of Avery, som
four miles distant, where they arrested tn
EST est latter, and captured set of moulds an
= some metal. Both prisoners were the
conveyed to Scranton and placed in tn
Elk Elk city prison until letter in the day, whe
the they had hearing before U. S. Commi
iars'f sioner Simrell, and gave bail for their az
ted pearance, on charge of having in the
tn tn possession, with intent to sell, a quantit
per of dies, and material for the manufactul
ers of spurious coin On the 18th of Sc
full full tember man named Dexter Stark WI
We arrested at the Parker House, Tunkha,
Of mock, for having been connected with tt
by conspiracy. He had hearing, and w
acquitted for want of evidence. On Il
Pa same date Charles n. Bush was re-arresto
on complaint of some other parties. /
was found at Niven's Corners, small V
lage in Wyoming county, and after hea
ing was admitted to bail. Orvill Ball, al
his son Lorenzo was arrested again
r. the 18th of September, at their homes
Wyoming county, and number OF othe
more or less interested in the schenl
were captured at the same time and he
to bail. Camp, however, who seemed
be
THE RINGLEADER
of the rag money manufacturers, was |
ouested to give $4,000 bail, and bel
unable to accomplish this, was remand
line to prison for hearing The detectives
Off the trail-that is U. S. Deputy Marsl
. Slocum and assistants found that Camp "
~, the head center of the counterleiting gar
the first to make the spurious money, inv
his dupes into the project and give