Year: 1867

All That Glitters is Not GOld-NO Offer


to Sell Proven, and the Prisoners Dis


charged.


The Times of yesterday detailed at length the
opeI ations of four Spaniards and one Mexican,
who were endeavoring to dispose of quantity
of metal bars which they represented to be
Mexican gold, and tnSinuated through one of
their number that 1T had been stolen from
Mexico. The report of yesterday also stated
and oftieers Clinton and Woods OF the TWENTY.
ninth Precinct, and their production on Sun
day before Justice X vim, acting at Jefferson
Market Police Court who remanded them to
the Station House until yesterday afternoon at
o'clock.


continued his investigation into the nature of
the metal he had captured, and by dint of con-
siderable detective skill not only became satis-
fed on that point, but also found where and
under what circumstances 1t had been manu-
iactured. After q silence as long continued as
it was profound and provoking, two OF the men
at last admitted not only that the metal was
bogus, but, in response to some OF those per-
suasive powers with which q Metropolitan de-
tectiye is gifted, they offered to show where the
metal that glitters, and yet is not gold, was
made. The offer was accepted and Officer
Clinton accompanied the men on the mission.
They came TO halt at the brass founding
establishment of James Gallagher, No.
81 Centre street, near Leonard street. and
an inspection of the books showed that some
time ago some Spaniards called and desired an
amalgam Of copper, zinc, and lead, according 10
q formula they presented, to be made into bars
for which they furnished the pattern. They
were very particular in their instructions, and
the founder, though marVelling at their nicety
and wondering to what use they could put the
compound in that queer shape, finished the lob
at last to their satisfaction, and they carried the
stuff away. When the metal left the founders
hands 1t was dull brown color, and presented
none of the appearance of gold. Where and
how 1t put on the garb OF false pretense and
took the semblance of the precious metal, Is a
secret our detectives have not yet been able to
penetrate, and is a subject upon which the
prisoners are reticent to the degree of dullness,


On yesterday afternoon the prisoners were
brought before Justice Ledwih, at the Jefferson
Market Police Court, and the story as related in
the Times of yesterday was told him by Ser
geant O,Brien, Officer Clinton. and Mr.. Packer
The man Gonzales had failed to make his an
pearance, and Officer Clinton went off to find
him, the prisoners meantime being remanded to
the cage. 1t was apparent, however, as was
intimated in the report of yesterday that legally
there was no case against them. They had
managed the affair with considerable cunning
and by perslstently refusing to show the metal
they have defeated the officers in their attempt
to fully entangle them. Neither Gonzales, nor
OiBrien, nor Packer can swear that the bogus
metal found in their possession was that the
sale of which they were endeaVoring to neROti.
ate, and Its mere possession being no offense at
law they have escaped.


AT a late hour in the afternoon Officer Clin.
| ton returned 10 Court and reported that he had
been unable to find Gonzales, and the oficers
being willing 70 admit that he had never seen
] the metal, Justice LedWith ordered that the