Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-26
CATCH THE COUNTERFEITERS
Special Agent Donella and Assistants Land
One Gang Entirely.
MCCARTHY OUTFIT IS NOW IN JAIL
Wei Planned Raid IL Carried out
with No Hitch md n Neat
Cleanup OF the Crooks IL
the Result.

BY a ruse the entire gang of counter
felters known as the Mccarthy
gang has been captured. A large
quantity OF bogus silver dollars and Almost
a complete outfit of moulds and tools used
in the making Of the coin were also cap
tured.
The capture was made In the saloon of
Frank DEACON at Twenty-fourth and
+ streets, South Omaha. The MN
were taken entirely by surprise
and when the officers surrounded
them with drawn revolvers did not attempt
to make a resistance. The gang. OF which
Vic Mccarthy was once the recognized
head, consists now Of John Mccarthy, John
Brown, Charles Schartow and Isaac Beadle.
All of them, together with Mrs. Mccarthy
and her daughter, are in cells at the city
Jail.
The gang was decoyed into Deagan's sa-
loon by Special Agent Donella, who
had been posing before them for
a week past as a dealer in bogus
money. Friday D%onella, who had made
numerous trips to the home Of Mccarthy, g
short distance from Bellevue, concluded a
deal for the purchase OF $50 worth of coin
he to receive twelve bogus dollars for every
good dollar he invested.
The money was to be delivered at Dea,
gan's saloon.
plan Works Like OIL.
At 8 o'clock Saturday morning. &C,
companied by United States Mar
shall Holmes. Sergeant Her anC
Detectives Havey and Cormack Donella wen
to the saloon. AT $40 Mccarthy and hi
gang with the Two women drove up to til,
saloon in a light farm wagon and alighted
| Whom thpy pntarab the r,lanp thny found III
officers seated about a card table in tn
rear of the saloon playing cards. Thinkinl
the officers were saloon loungers the coun
terfeitcrs paid no attention to then
but passed into a rear room. A
a given signal the officers crowde
) into the room and covered the me
r with their revolvers. They were taken en-
tirely off their guard.
In the pockets of John Brown five pack
= ages of bogus dollars, twenty dollars in eac
I package, were found. Each of the othC
men had a small quantity of tn
spurious coin in their possession. After tn
= capture the four prisoners and the wome
were handcuffed and brought to Omaha
( their own wagon. The officers droN
to the home of Mccarthy, near Bell,
vue, where they searched the house, fndir
e the complete coming outfit of tho gang hit
II den about.
: HIVE Long Been Operating
Z The gang has been in active operation Il
several weeks and has during that tin
flooded the country with the spurious col
Burns, it is said, being the shower, or mi
who disposed of it. The Bee, a few da,
since, published a story to this effect.
Mccarthy has tor years been suspected
u being a Counterfeiter, and in fact was twi
arrested on the charge OF making and di
posing of bogus money, but was never CO
victed.
His brother Thomas is now serving a f
teen-year sentence for counterfeiting T
Mccarthy family has borne an unsavo
reputation for years, and the sons, four
number, have been arrested, accredited wi
~ every crime on the calendar except mt
N der. The notorious 'Vic' Mccarthy, w
&c broke Jail here three years ago while ava
ing to be taken to the penitentiary to ser
! an eighteen-year sentence for a murdero
- assault, Is the eldest son of this fami
~ Another was known as BLACK Ike"
- died seven years ago. In life he was
o' counterfeiter.
All of the men refuse to talk, particular
Mccarthy, who is in a very ugly mood
~ all times. The money captured is an c
%cellent imitation, and is known as a "gla
= dollar" because of the amount of grou
1' glass in the metal used to ma
them. They are defective in the MILL
~ and a trife thicker than a good dollar.