Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1859 — A COVERNMENT OFFICER ARRESTER FOR FORGERY. [ARTICLE]

A COVERNMENT OFFICER ARRESTER FOR FORGERY.

A jdispateh from Washington lust Saturday stays that Major 'Edmund French, Pay Clerk of the Bureau of Construction of the Treasury Department, charged with forging certificates and receipts for 1 lie purpose of obtaining money from the United States, was; arrested on Friday; hut not until after consultation between the Secretary of the Treasury, Solicitor of the Treasury, District Oultl and Major Bowman, and giving the accused an opportunity to explain. The affair lis said to create much gossip there. The extant of the alleged defalcation has not yet beerj asceiturned. Wo hail this as an in di - c.atityn that the A'J>ninit*trntjr*n is becoming hO 11 (J t , " ,