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STORIES
OF THE
SECRET
SERVICE
BY
Capt. Patrick D. Tyrrell
112 %
STORY No. 1
THE LINCOLN
TOMB
ROBBERS
Being an Account of the Attempted
Desecration of the Grave of the
Martyr President at Springfield in
1876, and the Capture and Conviction
of a Gang of Counterfeiters That
Preceded It.
By CAPTAIN PATRICK D. TYRRELL
{Copyright, 1905, by Marlon G. Scheitlln.]
PART I —Continued.
Before leaving Clinton, Driggs had
packed and left for shipment by
freight three large boxes and three
trunks in the freighthouse at Clinton.
After his departure, and late at night,
entrance to the freighthouse was
gained, the Ilriggs packages searched,
and a complete outfit of presses for
printing counterfeit money, inks, pa
pers and minor materials was found.
The things were all carefully re
packed and the boxes closed, as they
had been originally. No attempt was
made to stop the shipment of the in
criminating money and materials, for
any delay in its arrival at Centralia
would have been certain to cause in
quiry and perhaps alarm oil the part
of Driggs.
While these events were transpiring
Boyd had been preparing to vacate
his old stone residence on the bank of
the Mississippi and to take his flight
to some point unknown to me, where
he undoubtedly intended to settle
down to a task of plate-cutting in se
clusion and far from his partners.
In short, there was every indication
that the next few months were to be
a period of great activity on the part
of the gang, if not molested by Uncle
Earn.
It was on September 20 that Boyd
shipped his household effects to Ful
ton, 111., and, with his wife, went
there to live till the work he had on
hand was done. Both Driggs in Cen
tralia and Boyd in Fulton soon had
neighbors of whom they knew noth
ing but who watched their every
move with more interest than even
prying neighbors are wont to mani
fest
During the eight months that the
hide-and-seek game had been going
on between the secret service men and
this precious lot of criminals daily
reports had been forwarded to Wash
ington, as is customary in the depart
ment. In these reports the various
actors in the play were given fic
titious names and, had the reports
fallen into the hands of confederates
of the counterfeiters, they would have
learned little from them. With Driggs
settled with the Stadtfeldts in Cen
tralia and Boyd hard at his nefarious
work in Fulton I believed the time
at hand to close this scene of the
play.
My report of the situation brought
on from Washington Chief Washburn,
Assistant Chief Brooks, E. G. Rath
bone, John McDonald and an opera
tive named Hurr, all of the secret
service division of the United States
treasury department. I had arranged
for a conference at Lyons, la., where,
with Chief Washburn, I went over the
details of the situation and outlined
my plans for the capture. This meet
ing at Lyons was secret and we were
extremely careful not to be seen
talking together or even acknowledg
ing any acquaintance. In a secluded
•spot on the river hank we talked the
matter over and decided to make the
arrests on the morning of October 21
at nine o'clock.
Chief Washburn had lived in Cen
tralia and knew the city well, so it
was decided that he should lead the
raid on the Driggs nest. I had care
fully reconnoitered the Boyd resi
dence, which he had rented under tlie
name of B. F. Wilson. It was a large,
two-story frame structure in Prairie
street, standing under the brow of a
bluff and easy of surveillance from the
high ground above it. The hour of
nine was chosen because, from my
knowledge of Boyd's habits, I knew
he would have had his breakfast and
been at work by that time, provided
the day was bright. Had it been
cloudy the raid would have been post
poned, because on a dark day Boyd
would not have been engaged in cut
ting plates on account of poor light.
Even with the best machinery this
class of work requires a peculiar,
bright light, yvhich is obtained by re
flection from white Hcre<'iis, and it was
.reasonably certaiu that Boyd, with
his crude prparatus, could not work i
to advantage on a dark day.
It was also arranged that Chief j
Washburn should not make the raid |
on the Driggs house until h* heard j
by telegraph from me that I had se- !
cured Boyd. In order to prevent any j
possibility of a slip by which Driggs
might be allowed to escape it was
necessary for me to get a secret mes
sage to my ctiief. Even the comnll
cated cipher ordinarily used in the
service would not servo the purpose, !
as it might arouse the curiosity of the
operator at Fulton or Centralia and :
lead to disclosure of our plans. It
was therefore arranged that as soon j
as I had secured Boyd I should send j
the following message to Washburn: |
"The captain has arrived with the
barges."
With the details clearly settled
Chief Washburn left for Centralia,
leaving Brooks, who was afterward
chief of the secret service, and Mc-
Donald to aid me. With these two
I went over the plan of capture, al
ways exercising the greatest caution
that no one should learn of the con
nection between us. To the world we
were strangers up to the time we met \
Boyd's house. Fate favored us in the
matter of weather. The day was
bright—an ideal one for an engraver
of plates—and I felt that nothing
could prevent us from catching Ben
Boyd "dead to rights." I was to lead,
entering the yard by the front gate
and going around to the rear of the
house. Brooks was to follow 20 feet
behind; while McDonald, 100 feet be
hind Brooks, was to make his way di
rect to the front door. By this plan
I designed to have each man at the
right place at exactly the right time.
I found the back door open and en
tered. No sooner had I stepped over
the threshold than Mrs. Boyd, her dark
eyes blazing, sprang fiercely at me and ;
grasped me by the coat collar.
"Leave this room instantly," she
screamed, at the same time tugging
me toward the door with the unnat
ural strength born of frenzied fear. I
grappled with her and had her fairly
subdued by physical power when |
Brooks stamped in and took her incus- '
tody. We had known that Boyd did
his work in a room on the second floor, 1
and I started up tlie stairs. When half 1
way up I met Boyd, in his shirt j
sleeves, descending.
"Who are you?" he demanded.
"Tyrrell, of the secret service," I an-'
swered, "and you are my prisoner." I
"I have heard of you," he said.
Great of perspiration started'
from his face, and he became limp as
I placed the handcuffs on him. Strong
man as he was, he displayed none of
the ferocity of his frail wife, who, in
the meantime, had stood, sullen and
apparently looking for a chance of
escape, in the kitchen. A six-hour
search of the house followed the ar
rest. With Brooks and McDonald in
charge of the prisoners I undertook
the search, after telegraphing Chief
Washburn.
In a loose board in a box In the
front room upstairs 1 found a cleverly
mortised cavity containing the plate
of the reverse side of the counterfeit
S2O note of the State Bank of Ohio,!
a note that had been extensively j
shoved by the ' coney men," as well j
as the plate of a S2O counterfeit bill
of the First national bank, of Dayton,!
O. Mortised into the woodwork of an
upholstered ottoman In the parlor
were th«- plates for the SIOO "Lincoln
head" treasury note, the concealment
in each case being so cleverly accom
plished that It required the smashing
of ihe wood almost Into splinters to
find the plates. In th<* cleat on an
other box was found s7,X"i:i In good
currency; while wrapped In some old
clothes under a bed were found seven
sets of blank plates, one set being of
the size used iu the counterfeiting of
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1906.
United States bonds. The counter
feiter's workroom allowed him to hay®
been engaged in plato cutting at the
| time we entered the house. It was
! learned later that Uoyd had set a price
\ of $i!,000 on the "Lincoln head" plate,
j Immediately 011 the receipt of the
telegram from Fulton, Chief Wash
burn and his men moved on the Drigga
house in First North street, Centralia,
' and arrested Nicholas and Barbara
j Stadtfeldt, Mrs. Nelson uriggs, their
! daughter, and Charges Stadtfeldt, their
I son. Driggs, the btg prize, was not in
1 the house, but was arrested the same
j day by Chief Washburn two miles
\ south of Odin, 111., in company with
; Nicholas Korn, a nephew of Mrs.
| Driggs, on whose person was found a
j large sum of counterfeit money. The
day following counterfeit money rep
resenting ?117,437 was found hidden in
the heavy woods seven milea north of
Centralia, where Driggs had concealed
it just before being taken into custody.
Ben Boyd was tried before Judge
Blodgett in the United States district
court, in Chicago, and was defended
by Judge Tuley. He was sentenced to
j ten years in the Joliet penitentiary.
| Driggs was tried in Springfield before
Judge Treat and was sentenced to 15
years in the penitentiary. The coun
terfeiters'wives were released; Charles
Stadtfeldt received an eight-year sen
tence, Nicholas Lange, a helper on
the printing press, was sentenced to
four years, and old man Stadtfeldt was
released. The "backbone of counter
feiting" in the country was broken.
PART 11.
In order to give the actors in the
Lincoln tomb robbing plot their prop
er places before my readers it will be
necessary again to wander briefly from
tlie straight path of my story. In the
early '7o's it was as easy for a secret
! service operative to find traces of
counterfeiters as it is for a fisherman
1 to get a bite in a Wisconsin fish lake
! It was sometimes as difficult to land
! the "koniacker" as it is for the fisher
j man to land his bass; but the central
west teemed with "coney men," more
! or less known to the secret service.
1 The custom of intermarriage among
counterfeiting families had bound a
largo number of the most proficient
| criminals in ibis lino into a league ce-
I mented not only by a common purpose
| and common danger, but by ties of
I consanguinity. I have told how Pete ;
j Mc Cartney married Martha Ann Ack
j erman, tlie daughter of an accom
j plished pair of counterfeiters, and her
j self an expert. Bon Boyd had married j
; Mrs. McCartney's sister, Almiranda, I
also proficient in the printing of bogus |
| currency. The mother of the Acker- \
man girls, after the death of her first
husband, married another counterfeit
i er, John B. Trout, a desperate "conej
! man," who at one time was the terror
| of tile secret service men operating in
j the Mississippi valley. It will be re
| membered that Nelson Driggs married
; Gertrude Rtadtfeldt, whose father,
| mother, brother, sister and nephew
j were all counterfeiters, and who her
self was a valuable assistant to he»
j husband.
These marriages are mentioned tc
i set forth the closeness of the tief
| binding the different bauds which. In
; effect, were one band. There wer<-
I many other such marriages, but refer
ence to these will suffice.
(To Me Continued.]
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and the managers Increase* the price ac
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Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad Company.
Condensed Timo Table in Effect June 4, 1905.
RKAD DOWN. READ UP.
Sun- .
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800 <• 00 i/oo «oo K noxvilln 9 .io ; 4 00, hon
614 917 12 11 (ill i Westttelil 9IT it 47 765
647 947 12 47 ti 47 j... .dailies Junction.... K4l | 211 7 25;
10 00 1 01} Ar. ) ILv BXI 7 M
7 Oft 10 20 5 01) 7 Ofr Lv. 112 ' fAr 830 1 «00 707
740 11 00 541 CrosH Fork June... 789 I i 6V3
800 11 20 602 Hulls 1 7 18 802
820 ! 11 40 6 201 Wharton j 050 540
12 15 I |....Sinnamahoning....| I 5 00
12 '>o ! Driftwood j , 4 52
| 1 02 I i Medix Run ! j j 408
I 1 2S ! I Tyler j 342
i 1 31 Peulicld | | 333
2 00 i ' Dubois ! 3 00
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ft 2'J I 12 00 029 ! C'ostello 044 :5 08 1058,
8 38, 12 15' I I ; Ar j tl-v 635 15 00 10501
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200 705 8 451 |.... Keating Summit... . A.M. 2.20 910 740
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830 330 Wellsville 8 »' £4B
858 3 52| Genesee 7 11 A 18;
909 401 j West Bingham, 7>o 206
927 415 ....Newfield Junction.. 7 13j 1 50<
10 lOj 4 551 Ualeton 0 30 105
11 05 6 25! i Cross Fork June....! 730 540
11551 7 10 Cross Fork i 4 30 4 40
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