The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-12-25
COUATEREEITERs CAGsD,
a Notorious Gang orcolners and Showers
or the Queer Brok en- UP and the Metu.
hers A vrSst.,,

OF the Queer Brok en- UP and the Mem
bers Arrested.
From Our Special Correspondent
PAR1ERsuuEd, December 24.-Secret ser.
vice officers have made descent on q
company Of counterieters who have been
showing the queer industriously In thls
city. andIthe bold operators are now lock,
cd up in the Wood county Jail. The secret
service men got wind Of the work and were
trying to trace Il when lucky chance
placed themina way that led straight to the
bogus money make,s. The evidence Is
complete, and nothing is wanting but tho
forms OF law 10 put tho criminals In tho
penitentiary.' -
In lust September the Brothers Alkire OF
th'S State, were arrested ut Pittsburgh for
passing counterfeit money, and later Jacob
liasliman, who the Alkires s.id Ind fur.
nisned the coin, was arrested. james II.
Miller, tdiias Hamilton Jones) was also ar.
rested by that time, but escaped from the
officers. These arrests alarmed the vauy,
and they scattered. They were traced up ID
however, and Jas. II. Pagan first caught. He
was working ut Marietta. lie was quietly
jailed ut Parkersburg that his arrest might
not again warn his coniederates. Fagan Is
II notorious character, having before been
arrested on the same charge.
Another famous member OF the lot was
j.: F. Marion, baptist minister. Miller,
alias Henderson, had already completed 4
three years sentence for the same crime, ,Lay-
Ing beeu arrested ut Pittsburgh. Fag,n was
an lrishman, 10 formerly living at Washing.
ton, Pa. His indiscretion led to the arrest
OF the men, as he told Capt. Perkins all
about their operations Coin was mr.
chased from them ut various times through
Fagan's agency.
In Peasants county they were unknown.
and were enabled 10 secure a standing
among the people they could not have Ut,
tanned where known. 1t was conjectured
they piled their neiArious trade at this
point. Last night all plans for the capture
were perfected. Chief Perkins and Deputy
Marshal Gibbons and Remby repaired to
Marlon's residence at midnight, and bv Il
neat stratagem were admitted. The two
men . were arrested, handcullei and
brought to this city and imprisoned.
The apprehension Of the two men was
kept secret, for fear the rest OF the gang
would put to flight. Miller was engaged 10
Marion's daughter and was to have been
married in short while.
j. R. Mehen, chief Of police, arrested +.
d. Llets near Greenwood, Doddridse
county, on whose property the service had
located the mint and battery, also the par
aphernnlia Of the same. \ quantity
Of the spurious was obtained
and brought in with the other stuiT. VIM.
Slater, OF ieaters Mills, was arrested by
Deputy Marshal semeley. At Owls
Head. in Wetzel county, Chief Perkins,
with Marshal Gibbons, arrested Dan Hick-
man, a member .oi the nest.
He has. been Il husband but
Il week and his wife ear
ried on bad, when he was taken from her.
These gentlemen also proceeded 10
Marions, where they found james Gun
ningllam, Of Gangeville, who is member
OF u prominent Marion county family.
John Stern is the only one not secured
and he will soon be nabbed for the Of
iicers are hot OH his track. The State is rid
OF one of the worst gangs Of counterieiters
ever known, and the work that did it was
oneoft the most admirable and best planned
pieces Of detecting ever done in the Slate.