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Show CONVICTS ARE COUNTERFEITERS 1 .Toliel, 111.. Jan. 29. Fh'o convicts who have been making counterfeit five-cent pieces in the machine shop of the prison here were detected today. to-day. The nickles were passed in the prison store. The leaders were F. Collins, a tinsmith, tin-smith, and Andred Shock, a machinist, machin-ist, both sentenced from Chicago' last August for robbery. The others assisted as-sisted in minor capacities. All were employed in the machine shop. They made probably ten dollars dol-lars worth of nickles and had prepared pre-pared dies for quarters and dollars, none of which, however, had been used. |