The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-16

wrote that he had received the bill
from man about 10 years old. nearly
SIX feet tall and with dark. full beard.
lie looked like weIl-to-do farmer.
the cashier wrote. but further than
that the description was hay. y some
what similar general description ex-
cept as to the color OF the beard and
altogether more definite came from
Parsons. sent Opera tive Kennoch to
st Louis and Louisiana to pursue the
investigation there.
While these things were happening I
received word through the United
States marshal at Springfield. III. TO
the effect that deputy sheriff at VAN
dalia, Ill. had arrested Il man for try
ing TO pass a 800 counterfeit bill at
the Farmers and Merchants National
bank in the latter city. This bit of
news, considered in connection with
the rapidly occurring events of the days
previous. was decidedly important and
| lost no time in getting to Vandalia
l found that tall, bearded farmer
looking man of about 50 had rendered
500 bill 10 David Palmer. of the To-
cal bank, and that Palmer had declined
TO accept it, reporting the matter TO
Deputy Sheriff CluXtOn. who had ar
rested the stranger at the railroad sta
ton as he was about to leave Van
dalta. He gave the name Of Levi I,o-
gam and said he had received the
bill from one Charles Scott of Fond
du Lac, Wis, in a horse trade When
arrested he had in his possession an
other counterfeit. bill of the same kind
as he tried to pass, and S154 in good
money.
1 questioned the prisoner. but made
little progress with MIN. but decided
from his manner that he was not Levi
Logan Who he really was remained
TO be found out. I asked for permits
sion to take the prisoner into my Gus
tody, but Deputy Sheriff Cluxton de-
cllned TO turn him over to me. l ar
gued that if held and tried in thaC
county he could not possibly be con-
Victed because witnesses could not he
brought in from another state. where
as the government could command the
attendance of witnesses from any
state. The local authorities also had
no facilities for doing the work neces-
Sary to secure such evidence as would
convict the prisoner. But Cluxton was
obdurate. l appealed To a prominent 1
local attorney who had influence with
the deputy sheriff. and in this way fin
ally secured custody Of the prisoner
and took him 70 Springfield
L often have thought since that if
the deputy who chung so tenaciouslv
TO his man had had any idea of the
part the prisoner was to play i'm conn
terfeiting history he would have re-
Ilnquished him gladly to the United
IN retaining custody of Levi Logan
1t Is likely that one of the most most
important bands of "koniackers'' in the
country would have enjoyed their lib
erty much longer than they did
The only clues ! had to work on in /
establishing the identity of Levi Lo-
gan We're his story that he had come |
from Wisconsin and a description of I
the man. The first clue was strength /
ened by the fact that the bills that had /
found their way into. Chicago evidently |
had been passed by a man travelling /
from north to south. l was convinced |
that Logan was an adept in the !
showing Of counterfeits. and if this
were true and he hailed from WiScon-
sin there was little probability that he /
was not affiliated with the Bcscobel
gang in that state.
In the meantime the bill on tho Re
we're National of Boston had been re-
ceivec at the Chicago postofFice from
George 9. King. told in the begin
ming Of this story This bin had come
rom the east, ana from this fact I sur
missed that the man who had asssed il
FAD Travelled west TO Wisconsin. prob
ably from New York City. and thence
.outhward.
/ believed that in a region that had !.
y@7rs such strong band