Gazette Of The United States

SPRINGFIELD, March 3.

On Saturday, were conveyed through this town, for New- York, under a strong guard, two brothers by the name of CRANE, who were lately taken up in the county of Worcester for altering, forging and passing notes in imitation of the final settlements, so called : These persons have been so long concerned in the business of counterfeiting paper securities of every kind, both public and private, and have acquired so great a degree of skill and dexterity in it, as to be able to impose very often on the most wary. They have at different times appeared in the different dresses of the gentleman and the beggar, as the occasion might require;—when lately apprehended, they were genteelly dressed, and passed by the name of Smith : They have often defied the arm of authority, boasting of powerful connexions which they were assured would buy them out of trouble :—they have often eluded the strictest search of those who had been injured by them, but are now in a fair way to meet with a due reward for their services.