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Show SLEUTHS REl'EAL "MONET PLOT FEDERAL MEN BELIEVE THEY HAVE MEN WHO PASSED SPURIOUS $20 BILLS Frightened by Newspaper Clippings, Men Now Under Arrest Burned Large Stock of 'Paper Chicago, A confession alleged by secret service operatives to have been made by Edward C. Bronson, one of the four men arrested here Thursday, has strengthened the belief of detectives de-tectives that they have reached the source of 550,0000 worth of counterfeit counter-feit $20 bills, circulated during the past month in Chicago, St. Louis, New York, Milwaukee, Omaha, Denver Den-ver and other cities. The men under arrest are: Ralph C. Oldham, said to he a former park-policeman park-policeman ; Bob Witt, alias B. E. Edwards, Ed-wards, advertising solicitor; Lewis Kettler, said to be a former bair goods dealer, and Bronson. None of the alleged counterfeit notes was found on the men when arrested. Engravers of the plate3 and those who did the printing are being sought. Search for the makers of the counterfeit coun-terfeit notes began last June, according accord-ing to treasury department operatives, opera-tives, who said three kinds of spurious spur-ious ?20 notes of the federal reserve issue bearing serial numbers A207, A203 and B20O, appeared at that time in Chicago, Milwaukee, Rock Island and Mollne. At the time of the Dcmpsey-Firpo fight, the spurious notes became common In New York, then again In Chicago and shortly afterward the trail of the distributors moved west to Colorado, operatives said. |
