Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1859 — COUNTERFEITER ARRESTED. [ARTICLE]

COUNTERFEITER ARRESTED.

Read the advertisement of E. T. Harding in this paper. will be preaching on the first Lord’s day in August, at Mr. Bedford's, onehalf mile east of Rensselaer, at 11 o’clock A. M.; M. L. CoFFENBERRY. wai an immense crowd at Lafayette, on the 4th. There were twelve military Companies, and from ten to twenty thousand persons present. Tom. Corwin, delivered the oration.

Last Wednesday evening a young man, named Holbrook, from Uniontown, Ohio, came to this place hom Bradford, passed two bogus half dollars, one on Thompson & Son, atid the other on J. M Austin, and then started back again for Bradford. He had not gone more than half a mile before it was discovered that the m ney was bogus, and a party of four horsemen started after him and brought him back. The next morning a party went out to search for more bogus money, and they found a wallet containing twenty-jtwo bogus half oilars within ten paces of the spot where he was caught. He was tried before Justices Howe and Hopkins, ahd held to bail iii .SSOO for his appearance at the next term of the Common Pleas (jo.irt. He failed to give bail, and Sheriff Phillips took him down to the Lafayette jai! for safe keeping. The evidence against him is conclusive.