The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-02

Thursday afternoon Deputy U. S.
Marhal Jones came up from the
southern part of the state having in
custody probably one Of the most per-
sistent showers of counterfeit money
ever known in the West and a man
who has earned a reputation as des-
perate criminal second TO few in the
West
In the New Albany district for sew
eral months business men and others
have been seriously bothered by a large
and general circulation Of spurious sill
Yer money. Maj. Carter and shis officers
seldom leave anything of this kind UNI
til they secure the offender and accord
ingly evidence was secured which made
ii almost certain that Andy Kimerlan
low who was brought in by Deputy
Marshal Jones. Kimerlan has for sew
eral months lived in a wild and I'M
frequented spot three miles south of
Doolittle's mills, near Equity, the latter
place being sixty-eight miles from New
Albany
Jones made good time to Equity after
he had received the warrant for Kimer-
lan's arrest and late in the evening
drove out TO Kimerlans place in search
of his man. The officer became lost in
the deep woods and wandered about
smooth enough to admit Of travel. He
finally stopped at a house and was
directed to the residence of the man who
had been swindled with some of Kimer-
lan's counterfeit money and who gave
the information which led TO the des-
perados arrest.
Taking this man in the buggy Jones
was guided to the one hundred acre
field some distance over in the country
in the middle of which stood Kimer-
then left the buggy in the road and
the two picked their way through a
gulch. it being as dark as Erebus, and
finally found themselves close up to
the walls Of the Kimerlan shack.
At Jones' request his companion sent
forth a loud-vOiced summons for Kim
erlan TO come to the door
What in HI do you want at this
time of night?' came the surly response.
''Why. my wife is very Sick" answer
ed the man. and l want you TO go
for the doctor"
Clothes said Andy, "and l will be with
you
Instead of this. however, Kimerlan,
seemingly mistrusting that something
was wrong, came to the door, which he
held slightly ajar, and thrust out his
head. Quick as a flash Deputy Jones
put his shoulder against the door and
showed it wide open. Before Kimerlan
could recover from his astonishment the
officers grasp was on his throat, and
the man was hurled through the open
door into the yard. Jones sprang out
into the darkness and was on Kimerlan
before the burly ruffian could fairly gain
his feet
Then a fierce struggle followed, which
only ended after the officer had knocked
Kimerlan down. and with the assist
ance of the companion" who had until
then taken no active part in the fight,
placed the handouts on Kimerlan's
wrists A search was then made
through the house. but it was found
that Kimerlan had neither candle nor
lamp In the cabin. Jones accordingly sat
down. placed his prisoner in front of
him, and covered the counterfeiter with
his revolver, and maintained that stu
alton until the farmer had gone back
more than a mile to his house and pro-
cured a lantern. With the help of this
light a complete search of the house was
made and considerable spurious coin
found The officer brought his prisoner
TO Equity without further delay and
took the first train to Indianapolis,
having made the trip in considerably
less than forty-eight hours. 1t was an
excellent piece of work, and reflects not
small degree of credit on Deputy
Jones' Kimerlan will have HIS prelim-
mary hearing this morning before Com
missioner Van Buren,. -.