The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-17
.C0UNTERFEITERS
AND M0ONSHINEHS
Five of Them Sent to the
Peniteptiafy
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SINNERS GET Two YEATS
COUN1 ..atFEIrERS GET ONE AND
THREE YEARS.
STORY OF ROW THEY MADE THEIR MONEY
And Then How hey Came to be Caught The
Norris Boy Played Into the Hands Of
the Detective. The Marshall
Cae Tomorrow,

Two counterfeiters were tried in the
Federal court here yesterday convicted
and sentenced to the peniten iary-one for
one year and one for three years.
The one year man is young man
named Peal Norris. The man who gets
three years is L. Il. Parrish, a man with
a family, Both eases were sent up from
Harnett county, but Norris parents live
in Goldsboro
Parrish was blacksmith in Harnett
county, doing a general repair business.
Norris came along, and being Il handy
sort OF boy he was hired by Parrish to
assist him about the shop.
This relation had continued for some
time when, one day Norris, rummaging
In the lott Of the Shop, came upon some
copper molds. Not knowing exactly
what they were he took them to Parrish
to inquire. Parrish took them and lay
ING them upon the anvil broke them UP,
explaining to Norris that they had been
made by somebody for the purpose of
counterfeiting; and that il he ever told
what he (Norris) had found it would
get him PARRISH into serious trouble
So nothing further was said about the
matter for some months. But one day
Norris came across another set of moulds.
These also he took to Parrish, and Par
rish acknowledged the Use to which ne
had been putting them. Then he took
Norris into his confidence; told him he,
assisted by a men who is now in
the penitentiary. had been making spur
ious coin, and asked the boy if he didn't
think he also could make counterfeit
money.
The boy replied that he thought he
could, and so they set about It. They
made nickels principally, but few dol
lar pieces were also turned out-maserable
limitations, all OF them, and composed
of habbitt metal Two kinds Of moulds
we're used-one made Of the babbtt metal
and one made by placing nickel be-
tween two red-hot pieces of copper and
stricking them with a hammer
As the spurious coin began to get into
circulation Detective Perry appeared in
the guise of a counterfeiter. He had not
been in the community long before he
made friend of Norris and one day, in
a confidential mood, he told the hoy he
was counterfeiter, and added that II
be could get somebody to make him some
in good money for every So Of the coun-
vest in this way.
Norris told him he could make nickels
for him alright enough. but he knew
nothing about the dollar business. He
suggested to Perry the ACCESSIBILITY of
seeing Parrish about that.
Perry saw Parrish. but Parrish slIs-
pected Perry's real purpose and pretend-
ed to know nothing. lie also warned
Norris. But it was too late. Within a
few days the officers knew all they want
ed to know. The links in the chain of
evidence were complete. Parrish and Nor
ris were arrested.
There We're two reasons why Norris
was given the lighter sentence:
In the first place he is very young
and was. it is believed, a tool in the
hands of Parrish.
In the second place he turned States
evidence and told the whole story to the
court.
Three others yesterday sentenced to
he penitentiary were Well and Robert
Walker. brothers, and Charles Pearce.
hey got two years and 500 fine for
itclT d1SuLlng.
The other cases disposed of by the
court yesterday were:
Sam Shaw Illicit distilling. Judg-
ment, 60 days in jail and $1O0 fine.
John r. Pittman, retailing. Judg-
ment. 80 days in Jail and 500 fine.
j. S. HARRISON, distilliPg and retail
ing: not guilty.
James Lynch, retailing; not guilty.
Joseph w. Witty, having in possess
sion disabling apparatus; verdict, guilty.
ELL Mcleod, retailing. Judgment, 80
days in jail.
The case against A. J. Marshall. the
young Wilmington attorney, charged with
counterfeiting. will be called for trial in
the Federal court here tomorrow. A
very large number of witnesses have
been summoned and the trial promises
some sensations.
T. Most of the witnesses summoned are
for Marshall, many of them being char
acter witnesses. His attorneys made an
effort last Tuesday to get the government
to summon and pay these witnesses for
him, but Judge Purnell declined to do
so for two reasons: o. That Marshall
is solvent and able to pay his own wit
nesses, having been shown to be so by
his justification for $4,000 ON his own
bond; ~ that most of the witnesses ask
ed to be summoned at government ex-
pense are for the purpose Of refuting or
the testimony of the wit
nesses for the government.
The prosecution claims to be able to
prove in this case that an old Greek
came to Wilmington and enlisted Mar
shaiFs aid in a eounterfeiting plot: that
Marshall wrote to Philadelphia and
bought the old silver necessary to put
their scheme into execution. Then they
took into their confidence and accepted
as d partner another Greek named PaIitz
and the room over his store was fitted
nh as shop. For this it is claimed.
Marshall bought retorts or furnaces. in
which TO melt metal. and in order that
people coming into the store below might
not hear the noise still another Greek