Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-15 | Page 13 | Counterfeit Suspects Held in Count Jail

Counterfeit Suspects Held in County Jail Jai Having waived preliminary hearing on counterfeiting charges in connection connection tion with an alleged spurious currency cur cur- rency reney plot Joseph P. P Ridges 50 a photoengraver and Walter M M. Sherwood Sherwood Sher- Sher wood 36 an convict ex-convict were held in inthe inthe inthe the county jail Wednesday in default of bond each Ridges was as arrested Monda Monday night and Sherwood was taken into custody custody cus cus- tody Tuesday after the purported counterfeit plot had been uncovered by United States secret service agents and city detectives More than in spurious currency cur cur- rency composed of faked federal reserve reserve re reo re- re serve notes and imitation Utah State Stale National bank notes noles and equipment for making the counterfeit paper was seized in connection with wilh the arrest of or the men officers reported Sherwood according to records in inthe inthe inthe the state bureau of identification also is known as William Sherwood and Walter Waller M M. Martin On September 18 18 1922 the records show he was arrested arrest arrest- ed in Salt Lake on charges of grand granc larceny and was sentenced to an indeterminate indeterminate in in- determinate term in the state prison on October 25 1922 He served until September 21 1 1923 23