Show A STORY OF HALL Y How lie Trapped a Gang of Shovels of the Queer WORK IS THE SECRET SERVICE I The Tale Here Below Recited Is One of Ills Best and Is Especially Timely Jut How 4 Capt Hall of the United States secret service ser-vice formerly stationed at Chicago has had many exciting experiences with counterfeiters counterfeit-ers and in view of the recent excitement over the alleged wholesale manufacture of silver dollars in Mexico which it is said lave been disposed of on Uncle Sams soil at a good profit perhaps a recital of ono of these experiences ipny be interesting In 18S4 Illinois Wisconsin and Michigan were flooded with spurious silver dollars which were so nearly like the genuine that they were readily received everywhere Nobody but experts in fact were likely to discover I the fraud The coin was of tho same weight es the genuine and tha stamping and milling were done with almost equal perfection The only perceptible differcaco was in the J round when the genuine and tho fraudulent pieces wore dr pped successively on some hard surface The spurious dollar having less than forty cents worth of silver in it it became a matter of great importance that the counterfeiters bo captured and their implements im-plements destroyed Every known resort of this class of criminals crimi-nals was surrounded and several old offenders offend-ers and their kits captured But this did not put a stop to the output of spurious silver dollars Copt Hall counted note and found i that he bad under arrest every shady char actor against whom ho bad grounds for suspicion sus-picion This satisfied him that the fraudulent fraudu-lent silver dollars were the handiwork of a pans of counterfeiters who had lately arrived ar-rived from some distant part of the country He knew from the manner in which the fresh corns were put into circulation that the don of the scoundrels pus somewhere in Michigan Michi-gan probably in the pine woods t One day Capt Hall pIneal his office in I charge of a deputy end started for his reef deuce up on the south side carrying a well fllled dilapidated oilclotfi valise Thus he entered his house Threequarters an hour later a 1 roughly clad man with soiled facoand hands evidently a lalwror left Capt Halls houso and slouched toward tho Michigan Central depot with his hands in his pockets A gust of wind lifted the tail of his sack coat revealing a brace of heavy revolvers in holsters attached to the strap which ostensibly I held his trousers up The man was Capt Hall but his own sou would not have known I him Even the conductor who punched his rommutation ticket every morning and evenIng even-Ing had no suspicion of tho identity of the rough looking man in the smoking car who handed him a ticket to Grand Rapids The old secret service agent slouched about tho streets and barrooms Grand Rapids for three days On the afternoon of tho third day he stood by the bar of a low saloon when a villainous looking stranger with a green shade over his left eye entered with a lumber K Ji d I l I I i a f 9N1 1111 THREE OF ONE GAJfO pan smoking a clay pipe and called for rinks As ho uttered tho words ho threw Jown a silver dollar When the coin struck Hie hard wood surface with a sharp ring Capt Hall startled slightly looked sharply It it the man wearing the green shad and left T the saloon Crossing tho street ho waited f Presently f the man wearing the green shade lad his companion the saloon and walked toward the railway station Capt Hall followed fol-lowed them Tho men bought tickets to a the town in the edge of the great pino fcoods Capt Hall bought a ticket to the time place Tho train did not start until fear midnight and it was morning when the two suspects and tho secret service agent reached their destination All three breakfasted break-fasted at a small restaurant whose tables tore guiltless of cloth When he had fin shed the man wearing tho green shade drew from his pocket a silver dollar Capt Hall lid the same The two corns striking tho table ono closely after the other rang out a sharp dissonance and Capt Hall looked pleased 1 After breakfast tho suspects went outside i sad stood near a lamppost talking earnestly Capt Hall approached them lighting his cob pipe whereupon the men stopped talking and stared at him insolently Well Bill n said the agent using the name by which he of the green shade had been addressed ad-dressed by the lumberman it is time you were gettinx out of this part of tho country coun-try nWbo Who nre you and what do you meanf answered Bill fharply I am Jimmy Morgan using oral of the aliases of a well known counterfeiterand this is what I mean Taking from his pocket the silver dollar which Bill had just exchanged for his breakfast break-fast and seventyfive cents in honest silver quarters Capt Hall let it fall with n significant signifi-cant nag on tho stono pavement Bill turned paloEver Ever hear of Capt Hallf asked tho agent < cf the secret service Bill nodded with look of terror d Well ho wants you Pvo seen him Unless Un-less you look sharp hell have you inside oft twentyfour of-t hours n Dill was panic stricken He begged his supposed companion in crime to help him and bis gang out of the United States with their Lit Capt Hall reluctantly consented and Cill and bis companion hastened to n livery table for a horse and wagon Copt Hall I went to the telegraph office and sent a long message to the department at Detroit All day and half the night Capt Hall and the counterfeiters drovo through the pino woods At midnight they reached a de acted half decayed lumbermans hut in a thicket t of second growth pines They wero welcomed 1y a men and a woman to whom 4 Bill hastily explained the situation While the horses were being fed the mea Capt Hall assisting placed iu tho wagon a beautiful beauti-ful set of counterfeiting implements and upwards j up-wards of 300 of the spurious silver dollars At daylight the party set out for a small bland town where Capt Hull said they could rest safely and look about them When irithiii two or throe miles of the town they Dvertook four lumbermen with ares on their shoulder Capt Hall got cut to stretch his legs I The couutei feiters remained in the wagon Two of the lumbermen were on one tide of tho wagon the other two and Capt Hall were on the other side Suddenly the lumbermen threw down their axes and the counterfeiters were startled to hear in the I voice pf Capt Hall the command I I Throw up your hands They were moro startled to observe five i n oJ orarcs or wicKoa revolvers leveled at tneir heads Resistance iras out of the question Two months later four of the cleverest counterfeiters counter-feiters in the country wore in the penitentiary peniten-tiary and spurious shyer dollarptTjirf out if circulation J J 1 CUEZIS Djrfpijy 1 |