Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-17
BRACKETH'S BONANZA.
What. the Deputy Marshal Discovered
in Duluth.
KITOF COUNTERFEITER'S TOOLS
And the COunterfeiters Themselves in
the Act Of Showing the Queer.
A COFFEE BARREL THE CACHE
And Full Set Of MOulds, Dies and
Stamps Unearthed.
Especial Telegram to the Globe

DULUTH, Mlnn., Sept. 15.-Maj. Brack-
EFT and Detective Wallace Hall, who have
been after gang of counter
letters here for some time, have certainly
"struck it rich" They arrested Chas.
Chambers, the groceryman, and Francis
Walters several days ago. Walters is now
in Jail in st. Paul, and Chambers is in Jail
here. The reason that the latter is here is
that when he was arrested he assumed an
air Of injured innocence, said that the
charge on which he was arrested, that of
passing counterfeit $40 bill, knowing it
to be such, was untrue, and he demanded
an investigation, and his examination has
been postponed for few days, ostensibly
to enable the government to procure its
witnesses from Dakota, where the particu-
lar offense charged was said to have been
committed. Walters is young fellow
and it is surmised by some that he is not
quite as deeply in as some of the rest, and
chat he had ''peached on his wicked pards.
At least, since his arrest the officers have
been locking into things very sharply,
and yesterday evening they arrested Cham
oers, partner in the grocery business of
Jno. McGovern. At the same time the
officers found a secret drawer in the
wall under the window in Chambers room,
and in that drawer they FOUND evidence
that the parties were doing lively bust
| ness in the way of crooked work, but still
| even after diligent search they were una
| BILE to find the presses, plates, etc., al
| though satisfied that they are yet and
| must be in the store somewhere.
This morning Messrs. Hall and Bracket
went the store dete rmined to find those ar-
ticles if in the store, even if they had to
empty every barrel and box in the store.
| They went to work and the second barrel
that they smptied was one containing
coffee, and in the bottom of it they found
just what they were looking fer, viz: the
| press plates and the bank note pa
pers, and they have now captured men,
| money and outfit, and have made q most
| successful haul sure. Il has been learned
since that quantity Of spoiled bills and
| also ink and dies wore found under the
| floor in Chamber store.
Walters, the man referred to in the dis
patch as being aconfederats Of the parties
arrested in Duluth, was seen last night in
the county Jail by GLOBE reporter. and
in reply to inquiries he said he knew moth
| ing of the operations of Chambers and
McGovern, and that so far as he was con-
cerned he bad made no money out of the
concern and had only gotten himself into
| trouble.
AN OLD TIME CONSCIENCE.
NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 15.-Judge Mayo.
| who committed suicide on board the Balti-
| more steamer this morning, related his
| trouble to an Episcopal clergyman of Nor
| folk, who came from Baltimore with him.
He said when elected Judge, he did not
agree politically with his son, promi-
| nent adjuster. He was told politics would
| not interfere with his duties on the bench.
Recently he has been urged to make re-
| movals and appointm ents, which after
| wards appeared in his opinion a violation
of law. His political situation irritated
him and he said he felt life ending his
troubles by blowing out his brains. He
is widely acquainted and uncle of Commo-
dore Mayo Of the United States Navy.
BOND CoUNTERFEITERs
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 15.-Anthony,
better known as Tony Hale, and John w.
Edmundson, were to-day taken into Gus
tody. 1t is alleged Hale and his accom-
plice have been engaged for weeks past in
issuing counterfeit notes and bonds, some
of which they are alleged to have disposed
of to brokers. They were held for fur
Their hearing. A lot of apparatus used in
manufacturing notes are said to have been
found in Hale's house.