The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-01-05

COUNTERFEITERs ARREsTEp-An Indj-
ana County Gang in the ToAs.-In a portion
OF our issue Of the 22d ult. we briefly an
nounced the arrest, at the instance of Mr. p.
NJ. Woleslagle, of Wiimore this county, of
two men named Lantz and McMiileu ON the
charge of showing spurious coin of the de.
nomination of halves and quarters, and now
we find i'm the Pittsburgh Gazette of Saturday
last, which 1t Is proper to say is largely If
not entirely indebted to the Johns:own Tri-
oune tor its information, the following ac-
count not only of the arrest of the parties
above named, but also of the capture of four
other members of the same gang, whose
goose was cooked, to sneak through dis
closures made by Lantz and McMillen after
their incarceration. The Gazette says:
On Friday G, ening OF last week John Lantz
were lodged in Jail in this city to await trial on
cnafBe OF manufacturing and passing coun-
They were arrested at Lilly's station, in Cam
bria county After their Imprisonment they
bogus coins were being manufactured, and
stated that one den could he found at farm
the village or Marion, in Indiana county, and
the other at a lonely house i'm the pine region
Hope, and Just across the border. of Cambria.
On Friday evening last Mr.. Thompson r. Kim
district. accompanied by constable George w.
fringie OF Wiimore, Proceeded to Indiana, for
the gang. on Saturday they went TO Marion.
and through the agency of DR.. Thompson,
VINO owns Il store near their objective point,
they succeeded in making the acanaintarcc of
a man named Kinney, who had been initiated
making and psssng r1 hhc % o,
pronered lis services i'm capturing the counter
feiters. That night they went To Thompson's
store, at Decker's Point, but the men they ex-
pecied to find there were absent. Waiting un-
I'll after midnight they proceeded to the house
ol DICK AyreS, where one oil the man fact Ories
was supposed to be lorated, and surrounded
the building ling 9, The u s. Deputy entered and
cuped couch in another part of the building.
Both were sound asleep at the time, aud the
on the wrists OF Mardis, without disturbing
his repose. Ayres was also secured In like
manner, and search of the premises then
made. Nothing was found to Indicate their
calling, except about "a gallon Of plrster paris,
which was evidently used for making molds
and small file, which served the purpose of
milling the imperfect edge of the coin just at
the vent where the metal was poured into the
cast. The prisoners were taken to Indiana and
put in jail there, after which the officers. to-
gether with Kinney. started for Glen Hope, in
Clearield county, where hey arrived on Tues
day. AT this place two more men were secured,
and with this reinforcement the party started
out into The pine regions for the house of a ma N
named Sands, which they reached about mid.
! night on Tuesday. Entering the building they
! found Scott Mardis, alias Scott Smith, and
! Adam Lcck, alias Walters, sitting Mt n stove
eating apples. They were arrested. and then
the house was searched. There were found
two moids made out Of plaster paris and which
| These very inRcniously constructed, and
] evidenced considerable skill on the part OF the
manufacturer The officers also found in tho
I
| evidently been made quite recently. Mards
| aud Lcck were taken to JohuSsown on We'd
| Dcsday, where information was lodged
| againstthem before l.. S. Com nmissioner Rut-
/ ledge. On Thursday they. together with the
( two who had been committed TO the Indiana
! prison, had hearing, and in default OF $1,000
| inill each they were ordered to be committed
4 To jail in this city for trial at the February
/ term or court. They were brought here and
| Inctrccrated last evening. 1t may toe rencm-
! brred that on the 30th OF May. 1873. Scott Mar
| DIS was arrested at Sandy Vale Cemetery, in
Johnstown, on a Charge OF uttering coun terfeit
| money. He was brought to Pittsburgh, and
! pending the session of tie United STATES Dis
| trict Court Ar. Swoope. the then District At
torney, died. Through some tcchuicaIity Mar
| dis managed to evade the mestes OF tho law,
and was discharged. Since then he bad been
keeping pretty shaGy. The arrest of these
| .hen viii break up u very extensive tny.
a GoOD SHOwIN0.-The exhibit present
| ed below of the business done by the Johns
| town Savings Bank for the fiscal year ending
Dec. 1st 1876, set forth in the sixth an
nual report of that institution, which also
shows its resources to be S3i1 sol. 4S. and
places it's liabilities, including SI3, 736 20 of
contingent fund, 1T the same figures, is ev-
ldence sufficient, we take it, of the confidence
reposed in the stability and good manage
nent of that we'll known and certainly well
| patronized banking house. Here are the
facts aud figures:
STATISTICAL.