Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1874 — Counterfeiters Outwitted. [ARTICLE]

Counterfeiters Outwitted.

A gang of counterfeiters of United States currency were discovered in ,Cincinnati recently, and from them it was learned that another gang was at work in 'this city, Brooklyn and Philadelphia. One of the Cincinnati detectives came on this city and, communicated with the branch of the United States Secret Service Bureau in Bletieker street. Several detectives frem this bureau were detailed to work with the Cincinnati man, and they visited in disguise every thieves’ den in the city. They finally ascertained that James 'Dunson, of No. 85 South Firth avenue, formerly proprietor of a liquor saloon at No. 121 Bleecker street, corner of Wooster, and Joseph Quinn, a thief well (jnown to the police, had been engaged in distributing large quantities pf spurious money. It remained for the officers to secure these men and obtain from them evidence not Only for tlieir conviction, but for the discovery of others engaged in the same business. Two officers watched Dunsop and the Mquorsaloon in Bleecker street which he frequented for three weeks, during which time they won Dunson’s confidence, and Were finally shown by . him several counterfeit notes, which lie tillered to sell at a great reduction, provided large quantities xvere taken, in reply to inquiries, Dunson said that he. had been passing them for three months; that he had already made $5,000 by such operations, and that he could obtain all the “stuff'” that he could use from the sime source whence he had obtained these sam- ; pies. These notes were $5 . bills of j a new aiid very decepUve pattern, | and Dunson said that lie cOuld ; obtain fifty cent notes, fully as good; ip • any quantity, from persons in the West. Joseph Quinn, the thief, wa’s introduced ! to the officers by Dunson at one of these interviews, and he produced £.500 in notes of all descriptions, and ; offered to sell them to the "strangers. It 1 was agreed that these should be delivered on Friday niglit at Bleecker and CrOsby streets, where Quinn was to ntee't the officers. He came at the appointed hour, and was instantly pinioned and carri'ed. ■ to tlie Central Police office, where he waA locked Up. Dunson, hearing nothing more, of Quinn and his friends that night; returned to his residence'll No. 85 South | Fifth avenue, to await their return. The ! detectives appeared there at 2 o’clock on ! Sunday morning, and captured him aftpr | a hard struggle; He was conveyed to the Secret Service office and there kept while his house was searched. Three i carpet-bags, containing about SIO,OOO in spurious notes, were found apd taken to the Secret Service office. Dunson was given in charge of the Central Office police, and will be kept by them until

further evidence can be obtained from ■ him. It is understood that he has already mentioned the whereabouts of a heavy “ manufacturer,” who will be immediately tracked by the detectives, — New York Tribune , Oct 12. *