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Show COUNTERFEIT, PLANT NOT LOCATED For a number of months past spurious spuri-ous half-dollar and dollar silver coins have been circulated In the city of Ogden and the officers of tho city, In connection with secret service men of the government emplove, have been endeavoring to locate the guilty parties. par-ties. Suspicion,' hns pointed toward eer-tnln eer-tnln Italian reiddenU? here and arrests ar-rests have been made, hut no definite clue has been discovered that wouH lead to prosecutions. The government officers, as well as the local officers, have been, for some time past, and are now, of the opinion that a counter-felt counter-felt money plant exists somowhere in this city. Thev also are of the opinion opin-ion that it is only a question of time when positive evidences of the pla'nt will be disclosed. Actlmr upon the advice and recommendations recom-mendations of San Francisco officers, yesterdnv Mrs. Rosina Alto of Spencer Spen-cer avenue was placed under surveillance surveil-lance on suspicion of having passed half-dollar counterfeit coins here, of lato. The officers were advised to take certain parties here who had received re-ceived some of the coins to the home of 'Mrs. Alto for the purpose of Identifying Iden-tifying her The parties, In company with officers of the city, visited ISra. Alto's home yesterday evening, but none of them could Idcntlfv her as the woman from whom thev had received the coins, as a matter of fact, they all stated that she is not the woman. Mrs. Alto was released from surveillance sur-veillance and the Information of tho failure to identify her was dispatched to San Francisco whero her husband, Antonio Alto, nnd Lulgi Qnlnto, were helnsr held under suspicion of being counterfeiters. Tho San Francisco officers stated I2 the telegram yesterday that unless the Ogden parties could identify the Alto woman as the one who passed the coins, they would have no cas against Alto and his companion. The men were released upon tho receipt of the news of tho failure of identification of Mrs. Alto last ovenlng. r |