Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1889 — Counterfeiters Arrested. [ARTICLE]

Counterfeiters Arrested.

Major Thomas B. Carter, Chief of the United States sentfee for Indiana, Captain E. Abbott and seven other secret service officers had a lively fight with counterfeiters whom they umre trvingto arrest in a hotel at Dayton, U., Wednesday night. One officer and one counterfeiter were severely wounded. The officers withdrawn revolvers approached the hotel from different directions and surrounded the building. Captain Abbott entered to make the arrests, when the principal counterfeiter escaped out the back way, and a running fight across the fields ensued, in wMich many shots were exchanged. Officer 8. A. Downella, of Virginia, was shot twice on the right side of the head, one ball following the skull to the back of the neck. The counterfeiter was wounded in the left ribs, near the heart, but how seriously can’t be said, as he either got away entirely or is lying in a large oats field near the Soldiers’ Home. Mounted officers are now scouring the country. Nearly fifty thousand dollars in tendollar counterfeit bills have already been discovered in the hotel with the plates, inks, etc., and the search is not ended. Nelson Driggs, proprietor of the hotel, is eighty years old. He is a noted counterfeiter, and has served several terms in various penitentiaries for making and shoving the queer. He is now in irons, and his wife and others are under arrest All that vicinity is* picketea by aimed officers. • spSs