The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-11
ALLSBROOK A BIG CATCH.
He Is The Hing Bee Of a Gang Of DAN
gCIOuS COultCTleiiGTS.

/ Government oficial Suspected of Be-
ing in League With Him-More Ar
rests to Follow County Treasurer
John P. Lamb Dead-Consul Jacob
! Dart Home on Vista Verdict for
$4,000 for the Mashing OF an Arm.
Mother and Child Frozen TO Death in
Camden County.
/ Brunswick. Ga. Jan. lo.-The arrest OF
I T. H. Allsbrook, reported briefly ana eN-
clusively in these dispatches last night.
has developed into one Of the largest
sized sensations of the new year and
embraces several states and many peo-
pie, besides bidding fair TO imnllrate q
| government official in a neighborug
/ state.
| Allshrook is the king bee Of a gang o.
/ dangerous oounterfeiters Who have been
/ flooding the Carolinas. Tennessee. Geor-
/ gia and other southern states with spu-
/ rious money for a long time past They
/ oelt in big game and coined only gold
/ metal considering silver too small 20
| bother with. In addition his gang made
/ excellent counterfeit bills, and there was
/ but little trouble in passing them, SO
perfect was their work The secret SER
! vice division OF the treasury department
I has been on his track for months The
| Morning News correspondent has had fl
/ from a reliable source that govern
I ment Official some distance from this
1 city Is suspected Of being a confederate.
/ Allsbrook also had confederates In Bruins
/ wick, and more arrests will be made Tn
/ Brunswick tomorrow morning. inelud-
/ ing both white and Colored people. Ais
| brook was trapped by decov notice
/ from Postmaster Brown that a regis
] tered letter awaited him Postmaster
/ Brown had been put on the watch by
/ Inspector Forsyth of Atlanta. and when
/ Allsbrook responded. he was arrested.
/ His commitment trial for passing counter
/ felt coin and bills I'm Brunswick win be
/ held before Commissioner Lehman to-
/ morrow. AllsbroOk is modest and re-
| firing IN disposition and appearance. and
/ worked IN Brunswick under the guise Of
a laborer at Brown & CARRIERS planning
/ mill. Inspector Forsyth arrived this
morning. and regards the catch as one Of
the biggest of his experience.
/ Consul Jacob Il. Dart returned to
Brunswick to-day from Gaudaloupe,
whore he has been stationed for year
/ He is on a visit merely and viii re-
! turn to the West Indies shortly.
County Treasurer John r. Lamb, one Of
/ Glynus highly respected citizens, and an
uncle OF Collector Of Customs Lamb. died
to-day. In his death Glynu county loses
/ a man who bore the distinguished honor
/ of being the first man to break the backs
/ OF carpet-baggers and negro Office holders
/ by being elected country treasurer twenty
4 two years ago, an Office which he held con
time of his death. For twenty-five years
| previous to his election as treasurer. he
was sheriff, tax collector. and tax receiver
/ in turn. making an unbroken record Of
/ forty-four years in the public service Of
/ the state. The day he broke the ranks of
negro republcanism. his nephew, Collec-
| tor Thomas W. Lamb, helped in the fight
and was himself elected sheriff Of Glynn,
/ and for the twenty-five years since has
! held public and governmental Office. lie
| was large and extensive landowner and
entertained at his country home in the
/ old-time southern manner. His death is
| universally regretted by a large circle OF
friends that embraced every one that
\ knew him.
In Glynn superior court to-day Andrew
! j. Burney secured a verdict for $1,000 in
/ round numbers and costs, against the
| Florida Central and Peninsular road for
| the mashing OF his right arm while coup
] llnE cars at G4NtItNl lily. DAf utJ - just
| q years old and the jury decided he was
| incapacitated for life. consulted the NOR
! tality tables and decided his damage at
so much per year.
The new council tonight reelected City
/ Clerk Bodet Treasurer Harvey. Attorney
/ whitfield Fire Chief Green, city Physi-
/ clan Branham, Harbor Master Fahm,
! Clerk Of Market Randolph, Sexton Moore,
Sexton White, Surveyor Wylly and Prin-
ter Wrench. The newly elected officer Is
| Superintendent Of Streets Calman.
1t is reported that Mrs. J. Head and her
child of Hazards, Camden county, were
frozen to death at their home on Friday
night last.
Rumors are a1oat that Attorney G. b.
Mabry drowned himself to-day in fit Of
temporary alteration. At this hour the
report cannot be verified, but search for
the missing man was unfrutful. His rela-
tives deny the rumors and say he viii be
found