The Lapeer Republican, of last week gives the following account:

On Wednesday night of last week, Lapeer was thrown into great excitement by reason of the arrest of two men, named Tozer, hailing from Davisonville, Genesee Co., for passing Counterfeit Bills upon the “Garden State Bank, Huntsville, Illinois.” They succeeded in the nefarious design of swindling every merchant in the village, but they threw up the cards when officer Cockett got upon their track.

Officer Cockett happened to be in the store of Mr. Davis, Hardware merchant, when they came in and his suspicious being aroused by their proceedings he was immediately on the alert. After ascertaining the fact that they had actually changed a bill next door which Mr. Davis had pronounced bad, he followed them to the Exchange Hotel, set a guard upon the door of their bed room, where they had retired, until he could procure papers for their arrest. When they were seized, one of them crammed a bill or two into his mouth but was compelled to reluctantly disgorge. One of the brothers after his arrest became somewhat communicative and informed Mr. Crockett of certain particulars which induced him to seek further developments; therefore upon the strength of the prisoner’s assertion he took horse and buggy and started for Flint to secure the aid of the officers of Genesee county. Officers Lound, Goff and under sheriff Buckingham at once took up the cue thus gratuitously furnished, and procured papers, set out to arrest a Mr. and Mrs. John Charles Casler, (a couple living at Davisonville, reported to be worth several thousand dollars, and carrying on, ostensible the business of farming.) They learned that the woman had gone to Saginaw. She was immediately pursued by Messrs. Goff and Buckingham. They found her at the Webster House, and when she saw that justice was upon her track she exhibited a courage worthy of a better cause. As Mr. Goff attempted to seize her, she flung him away as if he had been a playing, and produced a roll of bank notes, as thick as her arm, with a bound, placed it in the stove—then commenced a scene better imagined than described—the officer, jumping to secure the evidence of her guilt, was seized by the coat tail and sent whirling across the room—again and again he tried to secure his prey, but was at each endeavor signally defeated until her triumph was complete, when she submitted to the arrest. Two counterfeit bills of the same denomination and on the same bank as above were afterwards found in her pocket.

All this time while Mr. Goff was securing Mars. Casler, the energetic under sheriff, Buckingham, had made good the capture of a young man, name unknown, who had accompanied Mrs. Casler to Saginaw, and was supposed to be an accomplice.

On the return of the officers from Saginaw, they accompanied by officer Lound went to Casler’s house at Davisonville, where Lound succeeded in arresting Casler. He found upon the person of his prisoner, but one bogus two shilling piece. He found also, in the house, three counterfeit Bank notes upon different Banks, and a quantity of bogus quarters wrapped up in a closet of a bed room.

On Thursday night, the Sheriff of Tuscola County, also succeeded in arresting at Pine Run, two individuals who had been passing the same kind of money in Tuscola.

The bills passed are dangerous counterfeits and bear the following description: The words “State of Illinois,” “The Garden State Bank,” and “Huntsville,” appears to have been stamped upon the bill, while the shading around them is considerably blurred, and quite different from the engraved portion of the same bill, the Cashier and President’s name are written in blue ink as well as number and date.

The prisoners in this village had, also, counterfeit Bills upon the Lynn Mechanics’ Bank, Massachusetts, the State Bank of Ohio; The Commercial Bank of Georgetown, D. C.; The Westminster Bank, Providence, Rhode Island; and bogus coins, one of the denomination of two dollars and a half; one fifty cent piece and a five cent piece.

A word of praise to the officers engaged in this matter, is now, we believe, just their due. The sagacity and energy with which our own officer Cockett penetrated the subterfuges and followed up the track indicated by the Tozer brothers, should secure to him the thanks not only of this county, but of the whole Territory liable to be swindled. Officers Lound, Goff and Buckingham also showed a disposition to track up the gang and cripple its working:—they worked and succeeded as none but men who give their minds to their business can succeed.

It is said that other parties are implicated in this transaction; Time is only needed to prove it upon them.

The Lansing State Republican (Lansing, MI) Tuesday, 15 Nov 1859, page 2