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Show SENTENCES IMPOSED 01 COUNTERFEiTERS Secret Service Breaks Up Ring of Students in Coining Work. William IT. Davenport, local secret service operator, received congratulations congratula-tions from fellow government employees em-ployees yesterday for his work in breaking break-ing up a Utah counterfeitine; correspondence corre-spondence school and in rounding tip scVcral of the pupils who had taken the course to "make money." The arrest of the counterfeiters and their conviction marks the end of what is said to be one of the largest counterfeiting counter-feiting rings ever in operation in llie state, and probably in ilio west. Following Fol-lowing the evidence obtained by Mr. Davenport in the vase, three men yesterday yes-terday changed their pleas from not guilty to guilty and rceeived sentences in the federal' prison at fort Leavenworth. Leaven-worth. C'allisto Bigongiuri was sentenced to serve five Years iu prison and pay a fine of $75" Itiuseppi Bigongian was given the same fine and two years' imprisonment. Gmilio Cavasiu. who, it is claimed, had the least to do with the counterfeiting work, received sentence sen-tence of eighteen months and a $7o fine. Dante Bagnari, -ivhom the trio blamed with having guided the destinies of the correspondence school and with having hav-ing gotten them in trouble, some time ago pleaded guilty to indictments returned re-turned against him by the jury and will be sentenced Saturday before Judge Tillman D. Johnson. According to the story told by t.'al-listo t.'al-listo and Giusoppi Bigongiuri, after sentence had been imposed, none had passed any of tho bogus coins. They said they' lived together at Garfield, where thev were employed' at the smelter. Bagnari, who, it is said, has previously served a federal prison term for counterfeiting, came to them with a story of quick and easy profits. Accepting Ac-cepting his story, they said they paid him large sums of money and he brought them molds for making dollars and half dollars. Metal was furnished them and they proceeded to learn the art of moncy-'maki'ng, they said. The molds', they said, proved almost worthless and crumbled before the coins could be molded with any success. suc-cess. The officers arrested them before be-fore they could bury the outfit or the coins they had crudely made. |