| Show lEON IS IN TOILS OF SECRET SERVICE Alleged Head of Counterfeiting j Gang Caught When About I to Leave Country PASSED BAD MONEY HERE I Known to Federal Authorities Who r Traced Him Through Salt Lake Six Weeks Ago I B 11 ll Associated Press Washington Oct 9 After Arter After a search across the tho continent and anI Into British Columbia secret service operatives to toda today to- to da tiny day captured capture Albert Leon a a. Russian political refugee as ho he wa was about to leave leavo New V C York for Cor South America Leon Leomi Is alleged to be the head of or an extensive o counterfeiting gang s which has Imas flooded tho the Pacific coast with spurious spun spurl- OilS ous ten-dollar ten bank notes during thelast tho the last year yf The flie secret service was advised toda today that Leon was alleged to have port a process by which he Ime photographed the face Caco ace of ot a a. note and made the copies look so much like surface printing that man many experts declared them to have ha been printed from etched Plates platen Two of at Leons Leon's alle alleged ed confederates Rudolph Swanson and Fred were arrested in Chicago two weeks a ago o. o charged with passing counterfeit mone money Leon arrived ed in this lila country about years t ago O. O Ho took up lip a section of ot land near Beaumont Cal CaI where ItIs it itIs itIs Is believed time the first spurious notes were made In December 1910 he lie w went nt to Nootka Island British Columbia and It was waa charged that most of oC his counterfoil coun coun- work came out of or his plant there This plant was raided about the time that the tho arrests wore made In Chicago It contained some splendid cameras and other paraphernalia and some notes Inthe In Inthe the tIme process of ot photographing The notes of ot these In institutions It was wa alleged were counterfeited by Lf Lon Leon on Riverside Cal Ca national bank First National bank Yuma Ariz First National National Na Na- bank banle Oran Orange e Ca Cal Pasadena Cal national bank First National Wll- Wll Pa Ia El Centro Cal Cat national First t National Portland Oregon National National Na Na- la Dank Batik of Commerce Wichita Kan iCan Anglo and Paris London-Paris National Nation Nation- al San Francisco Illinois National Springfield III Ill Blair Coun County t Xa National I Jonal r Tyrone Pa ILL and Crocker National San Francisco Leon also was alleged ed to have coun coun- the ten dollar United States Buffalo note and to havo have circulated It Iton iton on the Pacific coa coast t. t The national bank banknotes banknotes banknotes notes were circulated principally In Lo Los LoAn An Angeles San Sari Francisco Portland Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon on Seat Seattle tIe Wash ash Ch Chicago cago and New r e York City Tle Treasurer n a Victim Six weeks ago KO Leon flooded Salt Sait Salt t Lake with bogus 10 certificates Among those he victimized was the city treasurer who gave s Leon 20 0 In good goodmoney goodmoney money for tor two of hi his cleverly executed executed ed counterfeits Roland K God Goddard ard chief chic of ot the United States secret service er erIce ice office at Denver Den who Is in Salt Lake Lako to tn make an Investigation of ot the work of ot counterfeiters and bill raisers stated last nl night ht that L Leon lAon on had passed about in bogus 10 counterfeit bills in Salt Lake during his operations here six elx w weeks eks ago aso Mr Goddard was advised ad of the arrest of ot Leon last night by telegraph He says that Leon Loon was p probably t tho o cievo cleverest rest co counterfeiter u n t arts I t c r who has operated In the United States in recent years ears |
