The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-03-11
After Counterfeisers.
A dispatch from Lewiston, Marc
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Deputy United States Marshal Mounce
has gone to Grangeville to arrest four
men charged with counterfeiing They
are IN custody Of the sheriff of Idaho
county 1t is known that Il gang OF |
counlerfelIrrs has been rraping harvest
among the Nez Perez Indians for more
than II year. Their method has been To
gild silver coin and pass il for gold. The
rendezvous Of those criminals has been
in The mountains on some of the trbu- |
taries If the Salmon. and the spurious
coins have been circulated from that re-
treat. N
The arrest of Newt Eddy at Salm-
on Meadows last fall, although the
trial of the Young man at Boise re-
suited in his acquiltal, seems TO have
been the forcrunner of the discovery
and breaking up of Il gang Of count
erfeiters which it WAS believed ex-
is,ed somewhere between Weiser aud
Lewiston. 1t will also be remem
bered that at tue time of the trial,
the general suspicion regarding other
members of the Eddy family was
mentioned in the SIGNAL Soon ar
forwards J A Eddy sent a com
municaton to the SIGNAL from Pol
lock (Which was duly published)
scoring the parties guilty of encour-
aging and promoting said suspicious.
and declaring that he WAS. on Repid
river ready to meet any u s. Mar
shal half way. According to the
following from the Grargevi'le Free
Press, he was taken at his word:
.Iohu Eddy Lewis Eddy and Frank
Frelcigh. of Rapid river. were arrested
Monday aud brought to town Tuesday by
Sheriff Williams On II charge of coniiier-
feiling. They had It pr liminary exam
inaiion Wednesday before U. 5. Com
missioner w. a. Hall. II
1t appears that ut the trial Of
Newt Eddy in Boise the grand jury
found indictments against the ahnve
parties For manifest reasons these
indictments were kept secret Until
the arrest Of The parties could be eff
fected They have now been cap.
tured and the entire story will come
out.
1t is rumored that Stan Lewis and
Charles Scroggins are also included
in the arrest
When the Nez Perez Indians re-
ceivdd their money from the govern
ment there was Il universal desire
among them tn convert it into gold
They are prejudiced against green
backs and want the jingling coin
Consequently there WAS an immense
demand for gold pieces, which these
counterfciters proceede 10 supply.
They made So, $40 and $40 pieces,
sometimes of bahbit metal and some
times of silver, covering them with
gold by an electro plating process.
The coin thus manufactured was cir.
culated in large quantities among the
Indians.
The government has had detect
i've working among these people ant
it is understood he has collected evi
dence sufficient to convict the en-
tire gang. The case will be tried a
Moscow. y
LATER Deputy Marshal JOIN
Coakley came TO Weiser from Bois
yesterday and arrested Emmett Tay
Tor, of Mann creek, who it seems WA
indicted with the others at the tim
of Newt Eddy's trial 1t appear
that Emmett went on prospectin,
trip up into the Salmon river countr,
last fall and happened to be in com
pany with the Eddy's and others tw
or three different times, and evident
was thus spotted as one of them h
the person or persons engaged in de
tectve work He says lie know
nothing whatever of the counterfeit
ing or of the passing of the coins
Emmett has always had good repu
tation here where lie has lived f.
years and we know of no one VIII
thinks he is involved. His arres
was surprise.
1t has just come out that til
stranger who came into Weiser
night last summer from Vale with u
ugly knife wound in his breast whic
lie had dressed hy DR. Numbers nm
then suddenly departed 1.-The incidel
was mentioned in the SIGNAL ut II
time was counterfeiter-one 81
gene st. CLAIR. lie made an offer /
Milt Canary to teach him the art {
counterfeting, and represented Thu
he could teach Milt how to make m
kind of coin, and how 10 make
$40 out OF So gold piece. T
argued that Milt should not wol
when he could have plenty Of mont
much easier and that, being cripple'
he was the more entitled to ava
himself of the opportunity IS
what have made out of it, y said Il
stranger, pulling out roll OF bill