This arrest of Gurney placed in the hands of the Government the counterfeit $20 plate upon the National Shoe and Leather Bank; which will be more fully referred to in a future article, in the important case of Joshua D. Miner.
Gurney married a beautiful and accomplished lady of the highest respectability some years since, and she is devotedly attached to him, as he is to her. She did not know him, however. Yet he has always treated her kindly; and the misfortune that befel her in uniting her fortunes with those of the gambler and Counterfeiter—though innocent of any knowledge of his base profession—is now intensified by his subsequent sad but deserved arrest and punishment.
Bill was convicted, though he boasted his ability to beat the Chief "bloke" of the Secret Service. The jury found him guilty, without leaving the box. He was sentenced by Judge Woodruff, of the U. S. Court, to ten years' imprisonment in the King's County Penitentiary, and to pay a fine of $3,000; to be committed until paid.
Thus ends, for the present, the history of this remarkable man, who has filled a large space in the annals of counterfeiting, in New York State; and who is now, luckily for the peace and welfare of the people—through the active zeal of the Secret Service—placed where they will realize, at his hands, no farther trouble for half a score of years to come.
