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Show Boys Confess to Counterfeiting. San Francisco.' Two young men Harry Malher and Richard Howard, both under 16 years of age, were arrested ar-rested Jl'hursday by Un fad States Commission Heiacock and held to answer an-swer for counterfeiting. A complete outfit for the making of spurious 10-cent 10-cent and 25-cent pieces, together with over 200 bogus quarter-dollars, were found in their rooms in the St. George hotel. The youths confessed to secret se-cret service officers that within a week they would have been making half dollars. They are believed by the authorities to have placed in circulation cir-culation many bogus coins in and about this city. |