| Show BEN J GREGORYS TION GONE Man Who Has Been Sweating Gold Coins for Years Is s Arrested MADE FROM 15 TO 50 A DAY DAYlie He lie Win 1 n 8 Minim Clerk anil unil CI III Dealer Mow the Vas ns Ebon Eb n J Gregory nn an Englishman I anti and well known resilient l of Qt this tillS city was WELS Wl arrested yesterday by In the police of ot this tit at the th III request of ot detectives from torn Denver Tho n came canic aa us tho th climax to years nS o Ot or alleged nf of gold coins VI by Gregory ro re rods ds at tt north Fifth AVast ost the detectives have has e watched huh him after evening us at ho worked In Inthe Inthe inthe the a As he ho has hns made mado from 15 lo tt ttO O 0 a n day for years Gregorys alleged translations run Into tho the thousands o oj ot dollars j Gregory Gregor Wl Van formerly n a 1 clerk In the o Of W IV V F I 1 t Co mining men Later laler ho lio opened a n cigar clar business at 1 17 south Main street and at 05 Ci west first FIrs South Sonth About two years ago ho went out of or tho cigar business and has hos since posed as O a u ti man mun SOMETHING SO AILED THE COINS Something wrong with tho tim gold coins In III circulation In III this city began to bo IJo noticed u ft I lOllS Ions while itO ago Finally Harry liarI B D Richardson and W IV V W IV Fra Frazer Fraz Fm zer z r camo to ShilL Salt Lake to 10 Investigate After ACler much probing and sleuthing they teamed le that a 0 certain man passed sev several SC ev eral ral gold coins every day duy Usually theSe gold pieces were rs or 01 ten teti They followed this lI li man juan and dis discovered covered one ono side of or o the tho coin the side he always R held hed up was brIght and anti now looking locking but the tho other looked old aid and rin worn wont They Tho followed him hint farther and oncI andin ant in itt time unto to 10 his homo home They learned ho h came down 11 own town tOn about noon spent some little time tank mak making tankIng ing purchases always with gold colas coltis and end would then return to his homo home later J In tho the evening ho would return up town and about eight would bo be back to his homo home again Hu no would spend an nn hour or OC HO 10 with his chemicals and apparatus In Jn tho attic and titan then come up lip town a thIrd time timo sometimes malt mal jug Ins a II night of or it Yesterday tho the arrest came The Tho de do detectives say tay sa they the have a IL strong case casu of coin colli sweating against their hell I nina mOil who Is I married and has hos three O children ch to ti shire Ills his present troubles Ho Is Iss said s d to have havo been using nitric and mu add achl upon one face faco of tho the coins thus thu eating considerable gold Role from them heat Tho rho coins would look old hI and worn After gutting u it quantity of o oi i paid gold ole sediment would bo ho housed used to catch tho the gold That this was Is itt shown by tho fact that Gregory Oregon two weeks weck ago received for or a 1 gold bar hor ho lie sent ent to Denver I Sweating pays from 7 cents to 10 1 on 5 coins and from flOm to from front a ti 10 JO piece OBTAINED GOI GOLD D COINS Gold coins were obtained by writing pi p 1 money orders for his wife at and anti then collecting them nt at the tho general office omco or by b bulk buik Im mi Importation Change Chang wan as obtainable by h making purchases In cigar department and alt aU other stores Gregory GI lory will vIII have havo Ills liis In this city JIb Both Richardson and l have hwo been b on tho the heels hell of ot i their man moIl for Sor many mari days but while they were over ever within striking distance Gregory n nol vcr dreamed that his secret was out Ho was not arrested until the tho detectives hat had seen seon every cery move In Inthe Inthe the tho game |
