The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-04-19

had settled and the people retired
They were very tired and dusty, ant
covered with clay, but alter trans
fsrrirg their prisoner 70 the hotel, tn
detectives started out IN pursuit o
Strousnider, whose residence il II
Waynesburg. They found him in hi
shoe shop, and surprised him in the act
according to Detective Perkins, of max
ing some coin. BE had the metals II
readiness, but had not yet commenced te
cast. The molds-ons Psir-were 70
covered and are in possession OF the de-
tective. Yesterday morning the parties
lett Waynesburg and arrived In Little
Washington before noon, reaching thii
city at 4P.M.
HEARING WAIVED.
Assistant United States Attorney Viii.
son told the prisoners he did not desire
they should make any statement, but
! gave in brief the evidence possessed by
| the government against them. They at
| first talked as though they would like to
have hearing, but ttslly waived that
formula, and were sent to jail for trial at
the May term. 1t is quite probable they
will get bail, however, as soon as their
friends learn OF their incarceration. De-
tective Perkins furnishes the fol-
lowing circumstances connected
with the prisoners: Thomas Man
ion is rough looking man, about
80 years of age, short, heavy set,
sandy complexioned, and wearing chin
wiskers. Part of his nose appears to
have been bitten or cut of at some period
of his lite. He ssed in very COM
mon clothes, o. = g.. d large old
fashioned cane, %...~.. -ecved the purpose
of staff for traversing the miserable
roads of Green county. His occupation
outside of the charge OF showing the
0oueer" WAS travelling about the country
peddling small wares, but he is also al
itinersnt pressher, come ted with the
Second Adventlsts. He is married
man, and has family, and &C.
cording to the statement of the
Secret Service officers was in the
WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
in the years 1867 and 1868, as near as
they can recolleCt, from one of the east
ern counties of that State. The officers
say they are informed that on one occa-
sion Manion stood uD on the floor OF the
House in the West ' irg!nis Legislature
and made quite u lengthy sp en- on a
pubic bill, while q! the SINE time he had
SlCJO in counterfeit money in his peck
OF. Detective Perkins also states that
he hes seen the prisoner, Manion, in
Cincinnati, and watched him leaving
Porkopolis, ard that his visit there was
to obtain supply of the "quo Dr." Miles
OgIe then bad his headquarters there,
but 1t WAS impossible to catch him, and
the government officers. while keeping
on the trail of the smaller dealers, and
definitely locating them, would not jeop-
ardze the chances of capturing Ogle by
experimenting any of the smaller "fry'
o the gang.
THE OTHER PRISONERS.
Rufus X. Nit chell, who, like Manion,
is charged with being wholesale dealer
in the 50 cent currency pieces, is man
about 81 or 80 years of age, slender in
build, with q brown moustache. he is
rather youngish looking. when compared
with Manion, but the latter appears a
great deal older by reason OF thu defect
10 his nasal organ. Mitchell has
rather an innocent look about him, too.
He Is the owner of farm of one hun
bred acres, about fifteen miles
above the town of Wsynesburg.
Strousnider is shoemaker, as stated,
and by all odds the fnest-looking man
of the gang. He is about thirty.tive
years old, has sandy hair and mustache,
and Is anything but a vicious looking
man. The detectives state that the par
ties were located ut the various points
wnere they were arrested, and in con-
nection with other operators, in West
Virginia, at equi distant points, supplied
the travelling operators with all the
"stuf" necessary TO keep up the circula-
ton.
oTuER ARRESTS.
About the time Of the arrest of the de-
PENDANTS mentioned, Detective Perkins
states, the Wheeling district officers cap
tured at Warrington, West Virginia.
lust across the line IRON Greene county,
James Perry Freeland, notorious old
counterfeiter and dealer in currency,
whilst al Wheeling was captured the
fifth member of the alleged gang, IN the
person of George B. Edwards, and both
are in confinement in Wheeling. Free
land is the father OF the young man who
is IN confinement at Moundsville, below
Wheeling, for the murder, by shooting,
of the old cattle dealer of Wetzel county,
West Virginia. Edwards is e feet 81
inches in height and is butt in proper
ton. He and Freeand are charged with
being wholesale and retail jobbers in $50
and 800 counterfeit United States Treas
ury notes.
THE MODE OF OPERATING.
Detective Perkins says the territory
covered by these operators embraced
Greene county and u large portion, It
not all of West Virginia, the distrl-
buting point being the town OF Llttleton,
in that State. Here the who esale deal
ers rendezvoused after visiting Cincin-
natl, where they obtained their supplies
rs has already been stated, and here they
arranged Tor the flooding of the district
which they worked coDjointiy, furnishing
the queer" to whoever might desire 1t
1t Is the opinion of the Secret Service
Officers that the gang is entirely broken
W, and that if any have escaped, the
operations in the bogus stuff in West
Virginia will cease for the present.
PantaI OOns win One Leg.
From the Baltimore Gazette.
ANhnn re rive vent to our admiration