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Show h COUNimFEII 55 DILLS Secret Service Agents Mean Important Arrest and : Secure a Complete Printing Outfit. ' erest jnsn of the kind In America, but Is asserted to have become a user of opium, which, of course, he was not permitted per-mitted to have after hla arrest Quantities of paper and Ink enough to print a million dollars' worth of fives were found In many hiding place about the city. There .was a press and a photographer" outfit, together with many delicate instruments and the coloring col-oring materials of the skilled counterfeiter, counter-feiter, Adamson was taken to Connecticut for hearing because a case has already been worked up there In which two of his alleged accomplices are under indictment. NEW YORK, Dec. 19.ecret service e gents are reported to have succeeded In locating in this city the materials and printing presres used in counterfeiting counterfeit-ing "indian-head" five-dollar bills which have been extensively floated all over the Eastern States, A long campaign cam-paign against the gang culminated last week In the arrest of Charles Adamson. ho is now in jail at New Haven, Conn. Great secrecy has been thrown about the case, and Secret Service Agent Flynn, who "handled the case, refuses to discuss it. Adamson was kept in the local lo-cal agency of the department three days and nights before the case was'com-pleted. was'com-pleted. He was arrested in a furnished - room in Eighth avenue, where It Is alleged al-leged he was negotiating for the sale of some rotes. The supposed buyer was a detective, and he arrested Adamson on the spot. No trace of the printing outfit out-fit could be found, however, and tkls being be-ing the most Important part, the search . was continued over a wide section of the city. Information finally was obtained ob-tained and the materials were gathered in at different houses. Adamson Is asserted to be well connected con-nected in this city. He Is highly educated, edu-cated, and is said to be one of the clev- |