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Show CONVICTED DENVER COUNTERFEITER IS REMARKABLE HAN Is Genius In Chemistry and a Deep Student of Literature. DENVER. May t. "It has been Intimated Intimat-ed to me that my chemicals hava baen withheld through fear that I might try to make a' haaty exit serosa the river Styx. Now, don't let that be a bar to any generate concession you might otherwise other-wise be pleased to great me. for rest assured that no malar how little of my life la left after aervtng my term of Imprisonment. Im-prisonment. 1 love thla Joyous old world yet. and would not give one year s ultimate ulti-mate pleasure ram Mine free In the search of minerals In the wltda of the Rocky mountains for all the optimlstie uncer-lalntlee uncer-lalntlee thst are eetd to await ia In the land of the hereafter." So wHtee H. N. Porter, convicted counterfeiter, coun-terfeiter, who today waa sentenced In tha federal court to a term of six. year In the United Statee' penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., la a letter to a fed- erel official in which he dtepiaye atrUtlng evidence ol remarkable literary attainments. attain-ments. Porter, arrested leee than a month ago for malting the famoua "Denver dollar," asid by secret service men ta he the beet oouaterfelt ever turned out, la one of the moat remarkable crlmlnala brought he fore a federal court. A chainlet of uit-uaual uit-uaual ability, poee.ased of ons of the flneet ehemletry eaulpmento to he found outside the larger laboretnrtee: a deep student of literature and an nuthority on Ahekeepeere, ha has apeat alraoet all hie Ufa, be says. In lha manual aeeupe,-tlona aeeupe,-tlona off porter and teameser. He operated oper-ated as a counterfeiter la Denver tot ive yeera before captured. |