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Show Ijl iLT Counterfeiter Has Been Alaking Thousands of Nickels Utiea, N. Y, Sept 13. Confessing that he has coined many thousand spurious five-cent pieces, a man giving giv-ing his name as George Corrigan of Columbus, O., is lodged in the local jail In charge of secret service mtu. He was arrested at Ccoperstown. Corrigan lived on the shore of Otsego Ot-sego lake all summer in a little hut. posing as a camper. His place was i aided by government agents and found to contain dies, a hand press, metal and a quantity of newly-made nickels. He admitted he had been Jo- j Ing the work himself and said he was ; getUng ready to make quarter-del- j lars. |