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Show BREAK UP BIG GANG OF COUNTERFEITERS 'Secret Service Operatives End Nine Years Campaign, on Coast by Arrest of Woman. SEATTLE, Dec 1" A n ne years campa gn to bring up an alleged counterfeiters gang was completed to night when secret service operat ves ar rested Mrs Ev a Hams sa d to be the last of the counterfe ters who have been pass ng counterfeit $5 and $10 I eces in Pacif c coast cit es V few hours before the woman was arrested $o3o in counterfe t gold couis were f shed from the bottom of the Be attle harbor by secret service men The woman was arrested in a room mg house after the secret serv ce men were sure that all the other members of the alleged gang were m custody Besides Mrs Hair s five men are now in custody and Capta n Thomas B Foster secret serv ce operaUve in charge of this district said he had obta ned s gned confess ons from two The coins found in the bay today were some of the early manufacture of John G Webber an aged counter f e ter who d ed recently in the K ng countv poorhouse after spending half his 0 years in Pacif c coast prisons for counterfe ting The counterfe t ng plot, according to Capta n roster dates ba k to 190o when he arrested Webber in whose room he founl $1600 n $o and $10 counterfe t gold co ns Its act vit es covered the Pac fie oast |