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Show BOGUS MONEY ON I IMSCALE Secret Service Officials Raid Chicago Plant for $300,000 -Worth of "duecr." NOTES PURPORTED TO BE NICARAGUAN CURRENCY Alleged Promoter of Scheme, Printer and Engraver, All Under Arrest. By Associated Press. CHICAGO, Oct. 22. Threo hundred thousand dollars' -worth of counterfeit Niuarajjuan five peso notes, freshly printed, rero seized and tho printer who mado them, the enpraver -who niado tho plntos and tho man charged -with securing thoir manufacture were nr-rcsted nr-rcsted horo today by Captain Porter of the United States secret service and his operatives. The notes had only been printed, not having tho "oflicial" seals or number impressed. There wero 150,000 notos, each of livo pesos, worth approximately $2 oacji American money, and "signed'' Continued on Pago Three. BOGUS MONEY ON A LARGE SCALE Continued from Pago Ono. by IT. Bacn,1 advocato general; J. lAfad-riz, lAfad-riz, "ICl prcsidente," and P. Mayorgaz. They had not been cut from the largo sheets. Printer in Trouble. Gcorgo B. Williams, president of tho printing company bearing his namo, waa charged with printing the spurious notes; II. N. Sccrcost of Tampico, Mex., was accused of being lho promoter having hav-ing (he nolcs print e'd, and .Richard J. Trumbull, manager of the Guarantee Engraving company of Chicago, is charged with having furnished tho plates. Tho plates were taken by tho secret service meu from tho presses, where thc3r were being used at the time of the r.'ijd. Williams declared when arrested that he thought that Se-crccst Se-crccst was an official of t.ho Is'icaraguan government and the work was logal. Trumbull's plea wns similar. Story of tho Plot. .The story of tho counterfeiting plan, according lo tho secret service men, follows: fol-lows: Scarcest, n planter of Tampico, Mox-, had boon loaning money to Nicuraguans and was unablo to get it back because of a Fhortago of current funds in tho republic. Upon a public announcement that tho government would duplicate for lfl.10 an issuo of livo pc."o notes similar to thoso of JDOfl to reliove I he stringency. Sccrcost. seeing a chanco to profit illegitimately, came to tho United states. Failing to mako arrangements ar-rangements in another city, Secreest mado a canvass of Chicago and upon his representation that ho was an official offi-cial from Nicaragua the Williams company, com-pany, through its president, agreed to print tho papor. On tho same representation, represen-tation, according to Trumbull's story, tho Guarantee Kngraving comptmy agreed lo furnish tho plates. "A lookout'' tip to. Ilio operatives frdm the first city Sccrcost is reported to have visited, enabled tho Chicago operatives to keep close watch on tho li'.ican and today a watcher at the printing plant reported the three men in conl'nrenco. Captain Port or and his men hurriod to tho big north side plant ami captured cap-tured tho thrno as thoy wore leaving lho building. ISighl bundles of tho printed note:;, twelve copper plates used in tho printing, print-ing, and a copy of the ofiicial seal of lw Nicarnguuu government worn taken lo tho federal building and the officials brought from tho offices of the printing company two bona fide notes of tho IO0U issue, from which tho engravers arc alleged to have copied the plates for the counterfoils. United States laws provido equal punishment for counterfeiters of American or foreign coin or paper money, mon-ey, the offense being the possession of the menus of cuiu counterfeiting or tho spurious article. The penally is not to cxood five vcars' imprisonment or fine of ."i000k or both. United States Commissioner Poole con finned tho case against tho three until next WodueHdav. Seere.ost'n bonds wore fixed at $10,000; Williams's at $55000, and Trumbull's at $50U. Both Willinms and Trumbull furnished bonds. |
