Show COUNTERFEITERS ARRESTED Gang ThatPrinted the Best Coun terfeits Ever Made I Washington D C Aug 14 Information I Infor-mation has been received by the treasury treas-ury secret service of the arrest at Detroit De-troit Mich of a gang of counterfeiters ers whose operations have given the gven government considerable trouble They are Charles Edward and David Johnson John-son Through the efforts of Secret Detective I De-tective Webb the department has secured se-cured some of the important paraphernalia parapher-nalia used by them Chief Wilkie regards re-gards the arrest as a most important one as he identifies the men with the issues of the Hancock and Window 2 counterfeit which have been circulated circu-lated freely in the west and east during dur-ing the last eight years At the headquarters head-quarters of the gang the officials recoVered recoV-ered the face and back plates from which the Hancock counterfeit was J made and also the plates for making I the large and small seals on these bills I There were also taken 50 2 Hancock I i and 500 S2 Windom bills the latter being be-ing regarded as one of the best all round counterfeits discovered for years Charles Johnson who is said to be at the head of the gang is about 63 years of age and according to the statements of the secret service officials here ha pet corsidQrable time in prison for counterfeiting The officials can connect con-nect the Johnson family one of the brothers of which Thomas P is dead Avith thelspue of a number of counterfeits counter-feits that have appeared from time to I time including the 35 Jackson legal tender the 20 legal tender of 1862 and I the S5 Grant silver certificate in 1S2 besides the counterfeit of some issues I of Canadian notes Detroit Mich Aug HA fourth I member of the Johnson family John the youngest is now serving a long sentence in the Kingston penitentiary jl in Canada After the arrest the officers of-ficers made several fruitless searches for the plates Finally a crack was noticed in the floor near the baseboard and on inserting a knife blade a spring was touched which caused the baseboard base-board to move revealing a small cabinet cab-inet in which the plates for the Hancock Han-cock and Windom counterfeits were I fcund The officers claim to have secured se-cured between 7000 and 10000 of the I counterfeit bills I |