Salt Lake Herald | 1897-10-19 | Page 2 | Startling Discovery

STARTLING DISCOVERY Counterfeit Money Manufactured In a Pennsylvania Prison Pittsburg Oct IS Warden E S Wright of the Riverside penitentiary has discovered that convicts have been manufacturing counterfeit 50cent pieces He has unearthed the metal from the queer money that was made and the moulds in which it was cast The counterfeits are magnificent specimens of the coiners art Ted Te-d e from whdch they were made is almost al-most perfect and the milling of the coins which is the governments chief protection of metal money from those who would imitate 1t1s as near perfectas perfect-as it Is possible for human ingenuity to make i That such coins could be made within the walls of the Riverside penitentiary with the crude implements imple-ments to be obtained obtaine by the prisoners Is startling The counterfeiters1 had already secured se-cured a connection with outside parties par-ties and some of the bad < money is 5 now in circulation Warden Wright has a list Of nearly a score of convicts and persons supposed t be connected with the counterfeiting and when the full story o the crimes come out i is said there will be tons Ihere wi some sensational revela