The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-06-23
COUNTERFEITERS.
Two Showers of the Queer
Nabbed by the Police.
They Tell Queer Story, But Give
Themselves Away.

Just as the council adjourn d a. Ten
O'Clock last night, quite an excitement was
created by the appearance of Officers Cos
sige and kahrs with tSo prisoners, arrest
ed for p ,ssiDg counterfeit money.
They gave Their names as Stephen Van
Dyne snd Franklin Pierce Shinn V~n
Dyne acknowl dyed to the passing of coun-
le feiI m ney, and 10 a reporter stated in
subst ince as follows
MY NAME IS STEPHEN VAN DYNE.
live in Karsas City, where / b We W lie
aud two children. / have resided there
for eight We RS. Yester lay my,elf and nv
partr er whose name is Frank Pierce, came
TO Sedalia on a freight train. We arrived
about six o'clock and got off at the depot
Just a. We got up TO the correr (meaping
Main and Os sge sireets) We were
MET BY A STRANGER.
who asked US if We didu't waut to swap
some psp-r money for silver dollars. /
told my partner We could carry the silver
as we'll as the other nan and gave him a
$40 bill and he gave ME twenty silver do
lars in exchange. We went into saloon
TO get drink and the barkeep SAID the
dollar / Offered him was count-If- il. We
went out and ex mined the money aad
found il was all counterfeit, ard In order
to get back what We could We agreed to buy
cigars and drinks and get good m ney in
change for the dollars. AID while doing
it We were arrested. The other man d.
C incl 10 make any statement, and Van
Dyne's Story, though duplicating him
thoroughly, is looked upon as
pITurp n ,r-1v
by the police, AMI the more so
as he can give no particular d scrip
ton of the psry he clsims
victimized, and whom h says is al entire
stranger to hin. HIS DESCRIPTION is of a
SID all man in light clothes AMI black hat
with dark complexion, light hair AMI
moust9che and abou thirty five years old.
% the person of the prisoners were
found some eight dollars in Counterfeit
money and about twenty doll rs in small
silver and nickels. So far as learned the
following parties were last night found TO
have
TAKEN COUNTERFEIT DOLLARS
from them Geo. Dixon, at Bob Morrow's
saloon, @. C.. S ack, OpBrlens and Sichers.
1t was Stated the men had q bundle with
them when first nOtict d, which has not vet
be. found, but is believed by some to h we
cont lined their mould for coin ne the boz
gus dollar. The police were IL aking an
active search last Hig n, for other suspicious
as they believe they have evil
dence showing the prisoners h.ve confed-
crates in the city.
Stephen Van Dyne and Frank P. Shinn,
the two young men arrested for passing
silver dollars, Monday nigh,
were Yesterday taken be- ore United 81 ties
Scott on a United St,tes
warrant aud in default of bail committed
to il until a. 10. to-day, when prelimi-
nary hearing of the case will be had AT the
circuit court rooms, which must result in
their commitsl for trial as their own ad-
missions are sufficient 10 ccnvic: them.
They still adhere 10 their former story of
being residents of Kansas City. II has
been ascertained, however, that they board
ed the freight train at Warrensburg on
which they arrived here at 6 p. m. Mon
day, and if they came from Kansas City
that day they must have arrived in War
rensburg on an e ,rlier trim, probably
with the in entIou of working that town,
but whether they did so or not has Lot yet
b, en- learned here.
The police say they are satisfied the two
we're alone and hid no confederst=s in
their schemes in this city. Both claim to
be married. Van Dyne says he has wife
and two children in Kansas Ciy and
Shiun claims to have a vie and three
ch l3ren there.
The prisoners have employed w. d.
Steele to defend them and yes erday gave
him an order for what money they had
upon Marshal Barnett, who turred over
70 Mr. Steele the amount.