Show counterfeiting IN JAIL counterfeit fifty cent pieces biec manufactured in pittsburg oct ID 19 warden E S wright of the riverside penitentiary has discovered that convicts have lieen been manufacturing counterfeit SO 50 cent pieces ile he has unearthed the metek ineta i from the queer money that wax wag mude and the moulds in which it was waa cast the counterfeits are magnificent specimens of the coiner s art the die from which they were made is almost perfect and the milling of the coins which is the governments chief protection of metal money from those w who ha would imitate it is as near perfect fisit is it is possible for human ingenuity to make it that such coins could be made within tho the walls of the riverside penitentiary with the crude implements ts to be obtained by the prisoners is startling the counterfeiters counterfeit ers had already secured a connection with outside parties and some of the bail bad money is is now in circulation warden wright has a list of nearly a score of convicts and persons supposed to be connected with the counterfeiting and when the toll full story of the crimes come out it is said laid there will be some sensational revelations |