The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Arrest of a Counterfeiter

--Detectives Philip Cashmeyer and Theodore Woodall succeeded yesterday in effecting the arrest of George Elam, who is believed to be the principal operator in depredating on the office of Hoyer & Ludwig, and printing off for circulation an indefinite quantity of Government Treasury notes, large numbers of which, as our readers are aware, having been put off on the public by him and his gang. The circumstances connected with the arrest are as follows: On Tuesday evening a dispatch was received from Petersburg, directed to Jos D. Elam, on Marshall, above 1st, directing ‘"Sarah"’ to send over a trunk. The message, which was not signed, was receipted for here by ‘"Mrs. H. W. Dabney,"’ The officers, suspecting the anonymous sender to be George Elam, made haste for the Petersburg depot, intending to go over and arrest whoever called for the trunk. Not being in time, they telegraphed their wishes to the Conductor, who proceeded to nab the party inquiring for the trunk, who proved to be Geo. Elam. Two fellows with him, called ‘"Flem Razor"’ and ‘"Peter Pudker,"’ seeing their ‘"pal"’ in custody, beat a hasty retreat. On Elam's person was found $133 45 in good money, and in his trunk a number of the bogus Confederate Treasury notes. Prisoner was sent to the county jail. The punishment of his offence, if he be found quilty, is death. Mr. Hoyer states that he never was employed by Hoyer & Ludwig as a journeyman, as some of the papers have stated.