The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-29
ACOUETRaFEITER


| DR.. j. c. LAWYER is a young man
who some time since announced to
the good people of Barrackyille and
vicinity that he would attend calls
in the medical profession line day
or night. But for time at least he
will spend his days in the Clarks-
burg Jail consuming his soul. He
has been arrested for too close an
intimacy with the counterfeit coin
calling.
DR.. LAWYER was in Barrackyille,
which is a small town on the B. &
0. near the edge of this county, for
several months, and most of the
time he kept his own company, but
managed to run in debt to nearly
every confiding citizen whose ac-
quaintance he made. Four weeks
ago he. decided to leave, but his
goods were levied on, though he had
left directions to have them shipped
to Sommerfeld Pa. Constable Ru-
fus Morgan, of Marion county, adj
vertised the goods for sale, and on
Monday of last week broke one of
the boxes open in order to begin the
disposition of them to the attendant
prospective bidders, but he was much
surprised when he found that the
box was filed with moulds, ladies,
crucibles, plaster of paris, tin plate,
recipes for coloring coin, directions
for making spurious coin, acids,
files, two pieces ofpeculiarly wrought
sheet iron to fit an oil stove, and
last, but by far the most suspicious
article, was a coin which seemed to
have been spoiled IN the casting, 81
peculiar articles in all.
Mr.. Morgan at once notified the
U. S. authorities who sent special
officer Webb, of the Secret Service
and together these men started for
Sommerfield
This town of Sommerfield is in the
mountains of Fayette county, and no
one there could remember having
seen LAWYER, but it was decided by
his pursuers that the young man who
employed such ingenious methods
for making money was some place
around in the woods, as he had been
particular in his instructions to have
his goods billed for that point.
They hunted around until Thurs
day morning, when there. appeared
at the little railroad station man
who inquired for the Barracksville
consignment Of unique implements.
This fact was communicated to the
officers and they started in pursuit
on the road indicated, which brought
them to Brandonville, which reposes
amid the mighty mounts and sparse
ly settled region of Preston county.
Here they found that LAWYER had es-
tablished himself in small house,
with the avowed intention of "bach-
ing" but the advent of the officers
cut short this intended career.
LAWYER was arrested, but strongly
protested that during his 81 years he
had always trod the proper path of
rectitude and virtue, that to make
counterfeit coin was the most remote
idea of all he had ever revolved in
his mind, it was s. shame, he said,
but on consideration he came along
without any undue violence.
He was brought here the same eve
ming and taken to Clarksburg to
await indictment by the federal grand
jury, and from the officers having
him in charge the foregoing facts
were learned by the New DOMINION.
The house in which he had estab-
lished himself at Brandonville was
some distance away from the little
town, and a placejust suited for the
uninterrupted, free and unlimited
coinage of the specie known as
"queer." LAWYER, it was learned, had
at one time been a stereotyper, and
this knowledge combined with what
he knew of chemistry, learned in the
study of medicine, well equipped him
for becoming a doctor of dollars"