Phenix Gazette

Counterfeiters detected. On Saturday 15th inst. a young man by the name of Isaac Keagy, genteel appearance, arrived in this city in the afternoon he commenced and passed seventy dollars in tens counterfeit notes Commercial & Farmers Bank of Baltimore.

Late in the evening they were discovered to be counterfeits—the person on whom he passed the largest amount, immediately applied to Simeon Hays, Police officer, who, with his usual vigilance, soon ferreted out the residence of Keagy, and further. that he had taken the Westminster stage on Sunday morning.

Mr. Hays and the person who had applied to him procured a gig and were on the road after him about 12 o'clock—they arrived at Westminster about dark and with an additional officer who knew the country around proceeded in search of Keagy. After calling at several places they found him, about eleven o'clock at night about six miles above Westminster, near Union Town, at the house of John Leister, farmer, where they arrested him and brought him to Westminster immediately. Hays took him in the gig, and proceeded early on Monday for Baltimore, where he arrived about 12 o'clock. An examination of the prisoner took place before Thomas Sheppard, Esq. at 3 o'clock in presence of William Lorman, President of the Bank of Baltimore, George T. Dunbar, Cashier, T. Cross, Teller, and Jacob Albert, Director, of Commercial & Farmers Bank of Baltimore— when he (Keagy,) confessed his whole transaction in passing counterfeit Bank notes.

He stated, that in July last he purchased from a man by the name of George Warner, farmer, near Westminster, (an old trader in this business) seventy dollars at 50 cts. one ten of the U. S. Bank, and six tens of the Com. & Farmers Bank—he, Keagy, proceeded to Baltimore early in August and passed the same without difficulty, and returned home. In a short time after, he purchased from the same man at the same price. one hundred dollars, four fives on the Bank of Baltimore, and eight tens on the C. & F. Bank of our city. the greatest part of which he brought to Baltimore on the 15th inst. and passed the whole.

From this information, Keagy's deposition was taken of whom he bought the money, and Hays was despatched on Tuesday morning in the Westminster stage to arrest George Warner— he arrived there about 9 o'clock, communicated his business to a Magistrate, obtained a state warrant, employed assistance, but from the known character of Warner, as a powerful bully in the neighborhood, who never would be taken unless by surprise, was advised to lay still until Thursday, when there was to be an electioneering Barbecue near this place, where no doubt he would be, as he was head man on those occasions. On Thursday morning Hays despatched two officers ahead on horse back, he took a carriage; they arrived at the place of rendezvous and soon found their man, and by a little artifice, secured him and carried him before the Magistrate at Westminster, who finally committed him to Frederick Jail where Hays conveyed him and where he now is safely lodged with a host of testimony in the neighborhood against him. Warner is a farmer. has a family and two fine teams on the Road, has been a long time engaged in this nefarious business, and when arrested and secured, the people appeared rejoiced. -Balt. Pat.