The Springdale news., 1899-01-13
ON \ SERIOUS CHARGE.
w. B. Moss, His Mother, and Frank
 Stewart Under Arrest.
CHARGE Is COUNTERFElTING.
A Severe Shock to Their Numerous
 SpringdaIe Friends.

oprlngoale rTlen0S'
 The news from Fayetteville yesterday afternoon that w. B. Moss, of this place, his mother, Mrs. Moss, and Frank Stewart, his nephew, mad been arrested at that place for coun- terfeiting was received with in credulity. No one could be lieve it; no one could realize it.. An investigation developed the fact, however, that the report was true and on every hand were heard expressions of deep regret.
 From Marshal Duggin, who came up from Fayetteville on the } o'clock train terday afternoon we learned the fol lowing concerning the matter:
 For the past several days $500 bills had been in circula tion Tn Fayetteville which had been raised from $1.OO bills. MT Duggin secured one of these bills and began an inves tigation. and traced it to a point where he felt justified Tn making the arrests recorded above, which was done yester day afternoon. Mir. Moss and his mother professed to be in nocent but Frank Stewart ad- mitted the charge, claiming that while he knew that the others had been carrying on the work he had not been a party to it. He admits, how ever, passing one of the bills. Mir. Stewart has made a clean breast of the whole affair. Mr. Moss was taken to jail, and Mrs. Moss stated she had money with which 10 employ guard and will probably not be sent to jail pending the prellm- mary investigation. When Mr. Duggin left Fayetteville yesterday afternoon Afr. Stew art had about succeeded in making a bond.
 The work was cleverly done, and Mr. Duggin lays the bills would pass anywhere without a persons suspicious were aroused Just how long they have been engaged in the work is not known, but probably for several weeks. No tools or implements of any kind were found around the premises ex cept an eraser.
 All the parties implicated are we'll known in Springdale. Frank Stewart is a son of Mrs Perry Goodman, of this place, and grew up here. For the past four or five years he has been attending the State Uni velsity at Fayetteville, and Mrs Moss, his grandmother, moved down there in order to board him. His actions in life have always been above sus picion, and he was always es teemed as an honest and eX emplary young man Tn every particular. The writer has been intimately acquainted with hlm from his youth, and knowing him as We do, cannot but believe he has been led as tray and been vnduly intlu enced by those who were older than he. At school he was al ways diligent in hls studies and was a general favorite among his young associates. He was naturally musician, and was leader of the oand here until he went to Fayette vile. His merit there was quickly recognized and he was gwen the leadership of the University band. He has nev CT been addicted to any of those little habits of boys and young men which are So com mon, and in this he has cer tainly proven an exception. He is the only son of a fond moth CT whose every care and atfec ton has been centered upon him. She has watched over and jealously guarded him as only mothers can, and has watched with pleasure and pride his development and ad- vancement. The blow is cer tainly severe one to her and she is entitled to, and we be- lieve has, the sincere sympa- thy of every one in Springdale.
 w. B. Moss has lived here for a number of years, having come here from Indiana with his parents He has a wife and one child, little, son who have been away for the past few months, visiting relatives in the North we understand. No one has ever suspicioned hlm of wrong doing.
 Wrs. Moss must be some where in the neighborhood of sixty or seventy years of age and her husband is proba ply AL fN1