The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-07-04
ALL CAPTURED.
u. 8. Officers Break up q Gang Of
Counterfeiters in Bollinger
County.
The Two Men Arrested I'm his City
and Taken to 81. Louis I urn
Sfnse,a Evidence.

The Two Men Arrested I'm his CITY
and Taken 10 st. Louis 1urn
STATES Evidence.
We get the following particulars of
the breaking up of the gang of Boil
linger county counterfeiters from the
St. Louis Globe Democrat of Friday,
June 26th:
LAST night United States Marshal
Buchanan, Deputy United States Mar
shall Mcclure and Mr.. J. +. McCul
Tough, of the United States Secret
Service. returned from q most success
full raid in Bollinger county, where
three counterfeiters were captured.
The haul is the best and most far
reaching in its character that has been
made in a long time. The counter
! fciters formed a well-organized gang,
holding the secret of their very free
coinage in one family, and they have
undoubtedly flooded Southeast Mis-
souri, with their specie. Monday the
authorities ofCape Girardeau. arrested
johnson Limbaugh and George Wei
ker for passing counterfeit money.
and on Tuesday, being arraigned in
this city before United States Com
missioner Crawford, they were held
in bonds of $4,000 each. Seven 81
coins were found upon them, and
when questioned as to where they got
the money they stoutly maintained
that they did not know where. The
Federal authorities finally cOaxed both
! prisoners to turn States evidence and
free themselves of all responsibility by
telling where they got the spurious
coin. 1t was then made public to the
authorities that in Bollinger county,
Mo-. out in the backwoods of the
county. A. c. Green. J. c. Welker and
J. Il. Welker were conducting a plant
on a pretty large scale. The local
Federal authorities were at once no.
titled. and last Tuesday evening Mar
| shall Buchanan concluded to investi-
gate. and with a posse went down to
B1llinger county. and learned that
Col. Green lived on Old Man Welker's
farm. liepairing TO this farm, up i'll
the hills. John c. Welkcr, the father.
Jacob Il. Welker, a son., and n. Ii.
Green were arrested and their houses
searched. In Welkcr's house Il
coming mill. or counterfeiter's outfit,
was found, molds, spelter, bellows.
ladies' and crucible. A second cOm-
plete mill was found in Green's house.
There five moldS, including a double
one for dimes, were found for the
manufacture of guartcr-dollars, nickels
and half-dOllars. The molds were
deity made. secured by hinges and a
catch. The frame work was of wood
and the mold of plaster of paris. The
metal used was an alloy of tin and the
sulpiIidc of antiinOnv, and all the ap-
pIianccs for smoothing and milling
the coin and then giving them the
appearance of age were found among
the traps. Alfred {. Green, who
seems the leader of the gang, the ma
clinist and chemist, is 81 years old
None OF the men made any resistance
to arrest. and old man Green declared
he only made molds to sell. that he
roiued no money, and that he had
great field in his region of country fol
the sale of his molds. Being a gun
smith by trade he is al expert work
man. lie confessed TO having seer
the Wclkcrs coin 800 in half dollar
and dollars last Sunday. out i'll the
woods, he being called to see if tho
metal worked well. There were dol
lars. half dollars. dimes and nickel!
found on the persons of the Welker'
and in the houses. and Detective Nc
Cullough made n search around Lutes
vile and picked up a score of nickel
: and several bogus dollars that hat
; been ISSUED by the Bollinger count!
mint. Green, the artisan of the gang
is an old offender. lie cOnfesses t.
having killed two men in Centralia
ILL.,, on November %, 1865, for which
he was sent to Joliet, but was subsr
G qucntly pardoned by Gov. Oglcsby
Although 81 years old, Green is still
an adept cngraver. lie has a wifi
G but 10 children. Welker is n married
man, and has nine children. Gree
did not pretend to be engaged in an,
particular business. but Welker con
Quoted his farm with the assistance q
k his son. The capture is considered
very important, as the southeast par
of the State has been flooded wit
bogus coins since the beginning ofth
ycar. 1t is not known how long tn
trio has been engaged in the MANI
. facture of the coin, but the FEEDERS
a authorities learn that the State
d flooded with coin in the vicinity {
Bollinger county. 1t is expected thf
G old man Green will tell of others I
n whom he has sold his molds. III
;r three men will be arraigned befol
United States Commissioner CraV
n ford to-day
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