Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-07 | Page 7 | Severe Punishment for Counterfeiter

SEVERE PUNISHMENT FOR COUNTERFEITER Word was received in this city last ! night by Thomas J. Callaghan, federal ; secret service operative, in charge of the j intermountain section, that II. P.. Wilken, ' the counterfeiter, whose work baffled the secret service operatives for years, pleaded guilty to the charge in the federal fed-eral court yesterday in San Francisco. A penalty of fifteen years In the penitentiary peniten-tiary was meted out to him. j Tt was through the efforts of Mr. Cal-laghan Cal-laghan and Harry Moffatt of Los An-celes. An-celes. also a secret service man. that Wilken was located in Santa Cruz, Cal., several weeks ago. The trial was attended at-tended by Chief William J. Flynn of the secret service, with headquarters tn Washington, 1"). C. Chief Flynn took occasion oc-casion to laud the excellent work of Cal-lagban Cal-lagban and Moffatt in aiding In the apprehension ap-prehension of what be consid ered to be the craftiest living counterfeiter.