The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1906-01-04

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The -shadow"a his investtg1-
ton In the stores Il which lekx. Ihom-
| - traded, and several Instances Of tie
passage of bogus silver pieces were
found. therefore decided some one
should be selected to gain the ministers
ctded that the one should be Woods.
Before long the two were doing business
together. Sullivan having been the In
termedfary. Woods and Sullivan
planned to go to his house ON one 0cca-
sion for counterfeit money, but the
preacher objected to the place of trans
fer. He also objected to the plan Of
meeting Woods in Bosses saloon, be-
cause the church of which he was pas
tor was SO close to the saloon that MEM
bers of his congregation might see him
entering or leaving the drinking place.
1t was arranged, therefore, that Woods
should attend night services at the Nor
gan street church whenever he wished
to make an engagement with the minis
ter, and they could select a meeting
place while the preacher ostensibly was
exhorting the sinner Woods to repent
OF his evil ways and become Christian.
1t was one of these occasions described
in beginning this narrative.
Woods reported to me that he was
could secure ''coney" from him without
delay at any place appointed. 1t was
still necessary for us to place ourselves
in position to corroborate the state
ments of Woods. and in order to do this
there must be witness to one of these
transactions. Woods was instructed to
make an engagement with the preacher
to deliver to him package of counter
felt money at the customary meeting
place near the Rock" church. and q
few nights after the meeting have de-
scribed in Grand avenue between the
preacher and Harry" became q wit
ness to one of these deliveries, being
stationed so that their every move
might be observed.
The operations of the secret service
related up to this point had covered
months. was determined to do the
work SO thoroughly there would be no
chance of its coming to naught in the
courts, as so many efforts to settle Old
Fred Biebush' had done. Thielen, Sui
livan. Hargate, Evans, Mrs WEIGH and
the others were Swallowed or "piped," in
the vernacular of the department, with
some good results. A continued watch
was kept on Bosses place. This sur
veillance, for one thing, resulted in our
catching Evans and the Welch woman
passing counterfeit money in small
amounts. was thoroughly satisfied
this money came from dies made by
Hargate, and. for the purpose of prov
ing it, caused the arrest of Evans and
Mrs. WEIGH and tried hard to get them
to tell where they got their supply of
money. Although they were the SMALL
est ducks in the Biebush puddle, they
stubbornly refused to give any informa-
ton whatever as to where their sup
plies came from. The system of pip
ing" also revealed the fact that Hargate
was handling Is and 50-cent pieces only.
So far as the minor members of the
ring were concerned, the net was being
drawn around them in satisfactory
way, but Biebush was still we'll outside
of it. The solution Of this great diff
Guilty at last came through Whalen,
who, after being enlisted on our side,
one day met in Bosses saloon stranger
from southeast Missouri The two be.
came we'll acquainted, the stranger con.
fiding his criminal history and desire to
handle ''coney." 1t is unnecessary here
to relate the details of the deal which
was consummated between Whalen and
the stranger, whereby the latter was
to "rope" Biebush. Suffice it to say that
this deal was carried to successful
close, the wary Biebush at last being
drawn into the net he had seduously
avoided for so long.
The facts as here related, with many
circumstantial and corroborative de-
tails believed justified the making of
arrests. Fred Biebush had moved
from his Stoddard street residence to
q place acquired by him through fore
closure of a $4,000 mortgage 51s miles
west on the Olive street road 1t was
well-known tavern called the Seven
Mile house. Deputy United States Mar.
shals Wheeler and Soest and l left the
Lindell hotel in carriage about five
o'clock one afternoon in October, 1879,
and gave the driver directions to go to
the Seven-Mile house, where we arrived
at dusk. There was water trough in
front of the house, and as / stepped out
of the carriage to uncheck the horses
so they could drink, Biebush stepped out
of the house, bare-headed.
In the dim light he did not recognize