The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-12-15
From Earlville.

EARLvIILE, Dec. ,, 1871.
Our usually quiet and orderly city VA,
thrown into considerable excitement on yc,tcr
day by The appearance Of two detectives from
Chicago who Immediately arrested William
Tuictt and took him to Chicago on the charge
of making and passing counterfeit money. \,
near rs | can gather from the circumstance
the facts are that he came to this place little
( less than year ago and has been working in
the wagon shop for Ed. Snow and boarding ut
the Earl Hotel" The proprietor of the Hotel
and his family have had their suspicious ar.
oused for some time and have been watching
for future Developments. He gave the propri
ctor orders not to enter his room only nj such
times a, he, Tuictt, should desire to have hi-
room cleaned up, and, Is learn, usually made
up his bed himself, and IN fact locked up hi,
room and run it himself One Of the propnc
tors sons after hearing him working in hls
room one Saturday night and after he had
locked the door and gone away on Sunday
looked through the opening over the door and
y
another time the proprietor found IN a vessel
in the room two bills which had been torn up
and which were probably considered defective
There was a detective here about a month ago
but failed to work the case up, and he went
away and another came, who, according to I'll.
NOR, was successful and managed to work into
the good graCcs of Tuctt enough SO that they
made some Of the money and Tuictt furnished
him with dies for the purpose of stamping and
making half dollars and they together manu-,
featured some. However the detective went to
Chicago Monday night and the others came
out yesterday and gobbed up Tuiett They
searched his things and found a number Of ar.
ticles used in that line of business and took
them with them to Chicago, where he has an
examination today. He was married man
up to October, when he procured a divorce
from his wife, who has been living at Sand.
witch, and on Thanksgiving eve was married
to young lady of this place. Since the last
marriage he has boarded at the wallace
House" 1t is but justice to say that Tuiett'S
friends clam that it is putup job on him by
his first wife and that she is causing him this
trouble on account of his recent marriage
Although rumor states that there are other
parties here implicated in it we discredit it, rs
Tuictt had no associates here, although he
asked one young man to engage with him in
the manufacture of the half dollars. The bills
are all of one denomination 50 on an Indian.
apois bank
The Thanksgiving dance was.a success 50
cially, if not financially Thirty-two couples
participated and partook of an excellent supper
at the Wallace House"
The meetings at the UniverSaliSt Chri9e cnnrch
were discontinued on account Of bad weather.
The Literary meetings are now held in the
basement of the Universallst church, where
there is more room but still not enough To ac-
the many that attend. The last
discussion settled the fact that Hayes is not
entitled To the presidency, and the
next will determine whether dancing should
be encouraged or not.
Prof Lyman, an elocutionist, will give Il
reading under the auspices Of the Literary So
ciety in ltobnson's Hall on the cvcningof the
18th.
The Ladies' gave mum sociablc' at the
residence of Dr. Dodge last evening which was
well attended, and although it was supposed
that the ladies would soon bankrupt themselves
paying fines for speaking, it was observable
that most of the fines came from gentlemen,
and the first fine collected was from one of the
male sex The ladies made herioc effort to
keep silent, having received 50 much badger
ing, and were IN measure successful.
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