The Newtown bee., 1894-08-10
Fairfield County Chat.
 BETHEL.
BETHEL.
THE SENSATION OF THE HOUR.

THE SENSATION OF THE HOUR.
 The town was thrown into great ex- citement, last week, by the unearthing of den of counterfeiters here. The of- ficers of the United States secret service have been at work on the matter for months. It seems that last June sspro
 moter" received an answer to his adyer
 tisement. which looked suspicious. Con- sultipg the Secret Service bureau, he agreed to answer 1t. lie then met man who gave his name as King, but who is now known to be Samuel Alexander Massey. Massey's original proposition was to go into the manufacture Of silver dollars out of the real silver, ou which there is s profit of 50 per cent at the mar ket pr,ces of silver. Afterward he let out something about counterfeiting Gov ernmen1 notes. July 28 he handed over 36 counterfeit $l0 treasury notes for $100 in good but marked bills. This was the first attempt to float any of the notes, which were very good counterfeit.
 When Massey was sarl ted, July 3l, he had $670 more of the same stuff in his possession, besides the marked money. Then the detectives found that Russell
 E. Hoyt was an associate of Massey and arrested him. Having learned that Hoyt came from Bethel, and went often to vis- it his brother Lorenzo, the detectives
 made thorough search of the premises occupied by Lorenzo. Last February, James W. Murphy went voluntarily to the Secret Service bureau and offered to give information of certain counterfeit CTS who had employed him, in his capac- | ity of engraver, to produce a plate for printing $lU notes of the Mystic River National bank of Mystic, Conn. He agreed to act as Sec -et Service agent at $2.a0 day, but after drawing $1O( l disappeared and could not be found ! The detectives suddenly ran across him, I last Friday, going along country roao ! near Bethel, in company with Joseph l Morgan, who lives in ElmWood district i and with whom he boarded. After talk ] ing with him, they went back to Loren
 20 Hoyt's yard and dug up the finest col lection of counterfeiling apparatus tha l ever came into the hands of the govern I ment. Lorenzo Hoyt, who appeared t, be directing the movements, was als, put under arrest. The packages founl I contained Sl2,000 in the $1O treasur, ! notes ready for circulation and pape enough to print $500, ,O00 of the counter feits, engrayers' tools of the finest quail I ty, parts of a press and 10 plates fo T printing three kinds of connterfeits-- ys tic River National bank $1O, the treas
 ury notes and $40 gold certificates. I
 regard to the case our special cores pondent in Bethel writes
 "The matter is great surprise to us al We have always supposed that Lorenzo Hoy was tar above anything that would T, make hi, l, a criminal in the eyes of the law. The neigl bors vaguely believed that he was at work some machine that he intended to get paten ed in the course of time and did not try to pr into any ot his secrets, and so far as the were concerned, he was left to work his oW 1, inventions without being molested by h neighborS and friends. Tuesday MT HO. visited his shop and spent few minutes tai bi ing with his old shopmRtess without makir Eany reference to his trouble. He looked tirt