Show DESTRUCTION OF COUINTERFEITS Over a Billion Dollars In Notes and Coin Washington March 21Prepara tions are being made by hlef Wilkie of the secret service to destroy 1221 306988 worth of counterfeit coin and bogus notes which have been accurnu lated by his bureau Of this amount 117213 represents United States treasury treas-ury notes silver certificates banlc notes and fractional currency S1O21 is in imitation gold silver nickel and copper coin The balance of thii sum is in imitation of various other obligations obliga-tions and securities including iv similes of Tennessee state warrants Missouri defense bonds state banknotes bank-notes and flash notes When spurious coin and notes together to-gether with the counterfeiters outfit are captured an inventory Is taken of them and they are properly labeled and boxed until the time arrives for them to be destroyed Phe paper money will be maccrated by the same machinery which is used in destroying worn out genuinejltes but the metal will he sent to a private foundry here and melted |