The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-09-09
THE COUNTERFEITER.
Joseph Banks is Bound Over tc
The United States District
Court.

Joseph Banks, the man arrested by Off
GERS GOssage, Prentice and Fifer SATURDAY
night for drunkenness, and upon whose
person the counterfeit money and dies were
| found, was arraigned before United States
Commissioners Scott yesterday morning on
the charge OF counterfeitiDg. He waived
examination and vas bound over to the
United States district court, which con.
venes at Jefferson City.
Constable Mont Carnes escorted him 10
Jefferson City in the morning. Before
TT ain time Blnks was confined in the Gala
bose. Here BA2Oo representative inter
viewed him and with the aid of Detective
Reynolds had the following conversation ::
Were those moulds made in the peni-
tertiary or did you get them after you
were released? ?" asked the newsmonger.
well, that is a very simple question
but one which | decline to answer. /
would not consider il an honor To give the
rest OF the gang away simply because
made fool of myself and got my foo: into
it," replied Banks.
What time were y1u releasedT asked
the reporter.
Between eleven and twelve O'Clock, on
Saturday. i boarded the train and came
straight to Sedalia"
did you haye any money besides that
which was counterfeit? ?"
YES, when / was released from the pen
itenIiary they gave me 80 and i already
had about $40"
"What became of that?
"Oh, got il with one of your sharpers
and ne tieeced me.tor my pile"
The reporter asked him several other
questions, but he refused to answer them,
saying he did not propose to furnish the
papers with another item. Detective R.y-
nolds then took him in hand, and succeed
ed in elici.ing the following from him.
His home was in Massachusetts,. He
was in Oswego, y, Y, eight or nine years
ago, at the time the Ballard gang was cap
tured. The way he happened to get In
the penitentiary before was this He went
to Lamar and met a man whom he had
known in former years. Together they
went 10 a saloon to get a drink, bat the
place was closed up. Banks was deter
mined to have the whisky, and the two
raised a back window. He got inside, and
while he was getting the "booze," the city
marsha came up and arrested him. The
case against him was 50 strong that he
plcducO Suulf, anu Was sent I'D tue pen IOI
three years When he was released be
cime mere With the intention of going to
Warsaw, why, ne refused TO say. He denied
that he had ever ben in the counterfeiting
business before, but afterward told the de-
tective that counterfeit dollars we're rolled
and stamped with a steel stamp. The
smaller coins were cast in plaster of Paris
moulds- The mould he had would not
have mad every many coins, as the mould
has to be changed frequently. The prison
ers in the ipenitentisry, he was confident,
were making counterfeit money right along
TinkeriDg was strictly prohibited there, but
still 1t was done. He did not want to go
back to the Jefferson City pen, because he
was afraid the officers would throw his
second time up to him.
One thing ii very evident, he either got
the moulds in the peniteutiary, or else he
got them in this citv, because he came
straight from there here. Be that as il
may, he is good for ten more years and
Officers Prentice, Gossage and Fifer de-
serve great credit for his arrest.