| Show I SAME NOD EDED Secret Service Men rilen Destroy Para Paraphernalia Paraphernalia Found in Sudden Raid MOST COMPLETE OUTFIT EVER FOUND IS TAKEN Spectacular Assault on Den in High Highest Highest Highest est Part of Frisco Marks Mark Victory for Officers San Francisco Jan 15 The most complete and extensive coin counter counterfeiting felting outfit that has hus ever fallen Into the hands of tho thic federal was captured capture hero by secret service servicemen servicemen men this afternoon and an the tho three men mon were arrested The secret service elice men admit that the seizure and an the arrests are nic of great groat importance Import once and followed months of unremitting effort with trails leading lending in many man directions The rhe plant was located in a lonely shack on tho the rocky summit of S Ber Boy Bernal Bernal nal Heights the highest hill huh In the city and was captured after a n spec spectacular spectacular assault Secret opera operatives tives Harry Harr Moffitt and 1 J M l Nye Nyc were cero on tho the case caGe and an after definitely I locating their quarry they called City Detectives Reagan and OConnell to toI their aid Last night the tho detectives I on watch in the shrub covered rocks saw four Cour of the men they the had marked markel I enter the shack but the attack was deferred In the hope that other othor mem mein members boys bers of o the gang might come to cover They wore were disappointed in this and I late lale this afternoon Chief Operator decided to act Creeping on hands and nn knees tho the I four officers approached the shack and on a signal made mado a rush But the house was well ehi barricaded and they were ere compelled to batter an en entrance entrance trance with axes While they were smashing in the tho doors one ono member of or the th gang escaped making malting his way down a cliff on whose brink the hut stands The three men arrested gave their names llames as a Michael Angolo Angelo Sam Samuel Samuel uel DIcola and Samuel Arman They Ther I are probably assumed names and andI I there is reason to believe e that th t at least I I two of f the tho prisoners are important captures ca After securing their prisoners the officers examined the plant which filled the little hut but and wore astound astounded ed at the lie completeness and mechanical I ical excellence of the machinery It I was a miniature mint They rhe found almost perfect dies lies for every overy coin cola from ten cents to ton tou dollars and saws lathes stamps anti and other accessories I I of the tho finest workmanship The stamps are said to bo ho equal almost tp 10 p the th came aanie pattern as ns a those hose used in inthe fue e United States mints The stamp was so massive thi t it could coul not Dot be carried Into the th build building lug ing In It Is too powerful for hand op operation operation oration and probably fearing the noise of or a it motor motoi or r power poser engine the tho gang had leJ d and installed a com corn complicated d and a aDd ingenious s system stem of or lev levers levers Ie ers and weights applied by bya b ba a longy Ion teal beam o coins or 01 metal were found the theraid raid having been timed just before the runt Blunt was Wa to have hale been placed in oper opel ration Cation aUm It Is under l pd od that the clue fol followed followed followed lowed by b lIl Secret service operatives began with the p pUrchase of the sig stamp an has lies been ti en followed for months Tey ey refus however to say sn where the scamp s ll ht Coins from die identical with tho o we have hayo mm I C noy nOw said one of o otho Iho tho officers are n win cIrculation In Inthe Inthe inthe the East and may been made with machine tL is I hIe that lint this gang Is a part of r a country countrywide countrywide countrywide wide organization 11 a |
