The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-15
they MADE The MONEY,
Aud they told whore thor Molds
could DO Found out in Ohio.
THOSE THREE cOyN7ERFEI7ERS
Arrested over at bridgeport last Fri
day give tho United States officers
,cmo Valuable Informatlon..-Nho
tho Three Men Really arc.-.Not old
Criminals. .-Fr

It isyory probable that the three mon
arrested over at Bridgeport last Friday
on charge ofmaking and issuing coun-
tcrlcit coin arc not old and "slick" pro-
icssional criminals, as was Mt first
thought. Iii almost certain that the
man known rs Morton, who escaped
from Jail at Dcllaire the other day, is
one OF them, and he is not the Smooth
article" that he has been represented to
be.
The men told the iailer atst. Clairs-
yillo that il Capt. George W. Robinson,
;nc Deputy United States Marshal of
this city, would como to tho Jail,
they would give him some information
Of value. He went out, accompanied by
Can't. Abbott, OF Cleveland, an agent OF
tLe secret service, and interviewed tho
men in the jail. They asked that they
might be allowed to have talk to-
rether, and aftcr consideration this was
allowed. They talked good while, and
a. last told Robinson that they had de-
cidcd to tel! where they made tho
money, and where the molds and other
appliances they used could be found.
They said that their headquarters had
been ut Canal Dover, Ohio, where two
Of them were employed in mill. a
short distance from Canal Dover Mrs.
Brady keeps boarding house, and in
it ono OF the prisoners, named Mulligan,
has room. In that room were two
molds for making silver dollars, with n
tin box, small quantity Of whiting
and little metal. In tho yard OF the
next house toward Canal Dover, in an
Clubhouse, was concealed another mold
for dollars, and come other requisites
OF the business.
Capt, Abbott LETT at once to investigate
the truth OF this story.
Muligan is the right name OF one Of
the men. The name i"Nickaboy"
printed Saturday is evidently mistake.
Tho man called Nickaboy gave his name
rs MacLeroy. Whether this is his
right name is not known. Hc and
Nlulligan both worked at Canal Dover,
both being sheet rollers, and both for
mcrly worked in the Etnaville mills.
Thomas Mullen was one OF the names
given by the men when arrested. This
man has one alias for every year no has
lived. He says now that his right name
is Thomas L. Tenant, that bis home is
at McKeesport, Pa, and that he he's an
uncle here named Frank Lake. Tenant
is the man Morton" who was arrested
n. Bcllaire for snatching 4 roll OF money
IRON n drover's hand, and who mys-
teriously disappeared from the lookup
at Bcllaire carly one night. He had q
BIZ beard. Ilo is now known to have
come to Wheeling, where he was met
by friends, who took him over to Mar
tins Ferry, and there early. next morn
ing he had his beard shaved off. Mac
Leroy has been recognized, by people
who know him as well known crook
named Cub" Bolen, but Others say
there is no real resemblance. Morton
has been spoken OF as too smart to be
caught with counterfeit money in his
possession, but the fact is that he had
the bad coin, and the other two did the
work OF getting rid OF it. Mullen is
said to be the really bright member OF
the combination nevertheless. Ho is
possibly playing tho simple dodge. It
is 4 question whether the men are ANA
tours caught early in their career, or
old,timers who realize that they are in
Tor 1t and hope by making a show OF in
noccncc to get off lightly. 1t is ten to
one, however, that they are simply bad
men who thought it would DO easier to
make money with plaster molds and a
!adle than by honest work in the mills.