The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-03

very well let you have any until get
! some more"
When can you get it?'' asked STAINS
| bury.
Amy time 1 go after it,"
! Where does IL come from?'
Cincinnati; l can get all I want
/ from Mother Roberts,
Cant you arrange it so that / can
! get it from Cincinnati MYSELF"
| Yes, the next time / 80 there I'll
! take you along and introduce you so
! you can buy all you want. John Fair
! childs, Ike Boswell and l were in Gin.
/ cinnati the last time together and got
J 81 600 worth each. / introduced them
! 10 Mother Roberts,"
Cant you let me have any coney
MOVE"
las a favor I'll let you have a ten.
but that's all l can spare"
Stapsbury theFeupon bought a cOun-
terfeit $40 bill for $3.50, and returned 10
Mount Vernon. / was aware that
this time Chief Washburn had lines
thrown out for the capture Of the Gin
cinnati crowd and dared not run the
risk of interfering with his plans by
carrying my scheme into that city at
least not without the chiefs sanction.
My assistant learned enough from DIR.
Laur and Isaac Boswell to indicate
that both OF them were on close terms
with Pete" Mccartney, and it was evil
dent from the minuteness with which
they described his movements that
they had travelled with him at different
times.
To relate in detail all the conferences
4 held with the different members of the
crowd and the results of those confer
ences would fill a volume. The ease
with which Stansbury ingratiated him
self into the confidence of the dozen or
more men involved surprised me and
at times led me to believe he had been
Involved with them in a way other than
he had represented to me. Starting with
/ Mecum of whom he bought some coun-
terfeit scrip, and running through the
entire list, We succeeded in making
deals with every member OF the crowd.
All the time ] was watching my assist
ant sharply, but never found the least
Indication OF treachery toward me in
his conduct and during the entire case
he proved himself unwavering in his al
legiance to me.
L.aur took Stansbury to Smith Con-
lee, from whom was purchased two so
| notes. In all these deals it was neces-
sary to have corrOborative evidence.
and this necessity created a good deal
of trouble and delay after / was thor
oughly satisfied of the identity of each
member of the crowd and of the part
each was playing in the general circu-
. latiOn of the cOunterfeits. These OBJ
stacles were overcome in the course of
about three weeks from the time I first
went to Mount Vernon, and then was
begun the most difficult part of the
case-the capture and conviction Of so
large number of men at once.
With the exception of Laur the cOun-
terfeiters all lived within a radius Of
about a dozen miles from Mount Yer
non. but at the same time were 50
close together that the news Of the ar
rest of one could easily be learned by
the others If the arrests We're not made
simultaneously, or nearly so. There
were thirteen men to be gathered in.
1t was manifestly impossible for one or
two men to accomplish the task, and L
wrote to Chief Washburn asking for as
sistance. As a result the following
were assigned to help; Estes G. Rath-
bone, then an operative in the secret
service. with headquarters in Cinein-
natl and who since acquired consider
able notoriety in postal matters. G.. W.
Reardon. secret service operative Ia
st. Louis. and Robert Higgins, n. 3.
Prettyman. j. E. Hill, W. F. Dunbar
and Frank Norval, deputy United
States marshals. Higgins, Dunbar and
Norval being made deputies for the
occasion.
On June went to Springfield and
swore out warrants i'm the United
States court for the arrest of the thir-
| teen men. The following night the ar
resting party went TO st. Louis. At
daybTeak we crossed the bridge afoot,