Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-27
ANOTHER "sECREr sERHrCE .yoR
unwise condu(


again. For several days the papers have
been full of accounts of the wonderful
achievement of Tyrell at St. Louis in arrest
ing gang of counterfeiters. The st. Louis
papers, the associated press and the special
correspondents have We'd with each Other to
herald the praises of this great achievement,
and the man Tyrell struts for q brief day
before the public as hero. The whole epi-
sode reads very similar to an affair bossed
by this man Tyrell about three years ago in
this city. Congress meets in about six
weeks and the nefarious secret service bu-
reau desire another appropriation to support
such disreputable fellows as Tyrell. 1t is
necessary to show that the secret service is
efficient and hence this raid with such
flourish Of trumpets.
The uninitiated public may think 1t
little strange that genuine counterfeiters can
be captured at will, at opportune moments,
but a brief statement will make all clear.
Take the case in St. Paul. This man tyr
ell, who was in the government employ and
had the money of the national treasury to
draw upon, employed notorious counter
feiter, named Ballard, to come to st. Paul
and set up the counterfeiting establishment.
Ballard assumed the name of Woods came to
St. Paul, hired house and roped in his
dupes. He brought some counterfeit plates
with him and went to the St. Paul Iron
Works and had press made for printing
counterfeit bills from the plates. He went
to Melgren's engraving establishment and
bought engraving tools. He went to Biggs'
drug store and bought chemicals. Then he
printed lot of bills in wretched style,
strewed them about the floor in chamber of
the house he occupied land notified Tyrell that
the game was ripe. The fellow Ballard
known I'M st. Paul as Woods, brought one
| victim to saloon, and Tyrell had the dupe
arrested while Woods walked quietly away.
Tyrell then took hack and gang of off,
GERS, as he did in st. Louis, and going to the
| house in question, valiantly arrested another
man, or rather an over grown boy, and q
woman and a baby. The account of his
style at st. Louis, his abuse of the wife of
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another woman, correspond closely to his
conduct here. He is brute in every sense
of the word, and his brutality in arresting
the woman in St. Paul (who was subse
quently proven guiltless) was SO great that
some of the other officers interfered in her
behalf.
| When the trial of the St. Paul victims
took place it was proven that the man Woods
was the purchaser of all the counterfeiting
paraphernalia, and Tyrell was forced to ad-
nit, under oath, that he (Woods) was in the
government employ. In other words, the
secret service was employing men to make
criminals, in ordet to arrest them and prove
the efficiency of the service and get an ap-
preparation. Woods was within fifty miles
of St. Paul when the trial took place. Tyr
ell knew his whereabouts and did not dare
produce him as witness.
We venture to assert that if the 'sbottom
facts'' are ever learned in st. Louis, it will be
found that Tyrell hired some parties to rope
have no doubt that government money has
furnished the capital for the counterfeiters
to work on. We notice that man named
Woods was arrested in that raid If he is
tho same Woods as in st. Paul, he will turn
States evidence and 60 free. After his
roping-in job here, he was sent to the peniten-
tiary for stealing wheat. His term expired a
few months ago, and he then came to St.
Paul and boldly called on the United States
marshal for employment as detective. The
marshal knew that he was the counterfeiter,
but he made no arrest, and it is quite proba
BILE that it is the same Woods who now
figures at st. Louis. We trust some St.
Louis paper will take up the clue here given
and run the matter home. We have Grim
inals enough without taking government
money to make more. One look at Tyrelrs
face is enough to show where he ought
to be.