Show secret S service ervice men H hunt D dev e facers fabers of gold pieces allds used to remove small quantities of metal from coins coin proba proba for tho the lincoln penny t jewelry fad new i yorke york federal secret ser service y ace krents under orders from chief john C V A wilkie hayo bayo been making a canvass if f jewelers and electroplating abols in the ain maiden den lane district in ao an effort to run down persons persona suspected of 0 tripping stripping coins that Is removing small quantities of gold or silver from the iho surfaces of 0 coins by a chemical pro process inquiries also were made as to several new kinds of coin jew jewelry jewelia eliy In including chuling articles made from lincoln pennies t the inquiry as to coin stripping was as it started arted after many circulating cot coins no including 20 gold pieces were found to bo be short of the prescribed weight p the toss loss seemed to be more than is usual when coins aro arc worn off from q frequent handling they are clous t that bat coins have been reduced ed t in weight by the stripping in n g which they are dipped for no an houi or r two in aqua regla a mixture of 0 nitric and hydrochloric acids into which on an elec electric current la is turned when t the lie electric power and tho the strength of the adds acids are fixed in the proper rotation relation to the weight of at the coins treated it Is believed the metal is sweated oft off th the 3 surface of the coins so BO smoothly that they the uie are not nol changed in appear ance Valin able Lle quantities ol of the precious X matali have been obtained ariadna criminally 17 it la Is suspected through the stripping of many ciany coins the detached metal clings to a receiving plate from which it is readily collected by tho the strippers who havo have no difficulty in telling selling it for cash to jewelers or even to tho e goi gov orn eminent ment since sanco there la its no suspicion i of the method by which it was oti ob john E wilkle bained the colna coins are pas passed tb cip cu lation at their face value coln coins alid havi have been stripped it astus pecked by using ibern hem for A hort art butoi later vals in electroplating tanks many c that have been offered tot of deposit at banks recently have ave tto a designs brought out more sharply than Is natural it Is supposed that these colna coins have been stripped and were wera left in the the acid bath too loia n ut even in these coins the untrained eye would see no men a of f mutilation one of the largest electro said eald that thai strippers could take na an much as aa a pennyweight ot of gold worth more than if a dollar from a 20 gold piece without making any ea easily atly perceptible change there la Is no risk of loss to in damaging hug gold coins because it the acid should eat too much or roughen the surface the entire coin may ie be melted up and the metal sold eold for an amount equal to the value at 0 the coin A special difficulty in getting evidence against the abo stripper is that even it lie he be caught with the coins in solution nothing la Is proved as aa he can say may that he be intends to use tho the coins instead of bullion for plating and will not try to pass them ax an money there Is no law against dissolving or melting coins provided they are destroyed an aa currency and many jewelers fuse use gold coins instead of go ing to tho the trouble of getting bullion for the purpose nono of the fished electro electroplate ra la Is suspected ol of being engaged ill hi the illegitimate practice it la is supposed that temporary plants planta are put up by strippers la in secluded lofts ot of factory buildings as aa little equipment is 1 required the fud fad for lincoln in jew elry received attention because a gold plated penny might be mistaken for a live dollar gold piece lt it was re called that when the live cent nickels i were first used they did alj no not have the word cent on them many such coins were plated with gold and passed on ignorant immigrants am ai five dollar gold pieces the service men who la in quiren hero here as to the use of the gold plated pennies made no objection to such plating jewelers have hato mads mad inquiries ot of tho the here and J in W washington ashington and have been in formed that the law as to fo mutilation of c coins applies only to gold prid and oil ell ver cc coins ins besides pennies are made mad more valuable by gold plating in certain western cities it la 13 reported the federal authorities have hava i prohibited manufacturers of jewelry from platting plaiting lincoln pennies with witha gold that Is held to account forian foran 4 t increased demand on the manufacture era hero who make tho the pennies into inta dins brooches and other arv artl cles cies |