Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-12-15
A SENSATIONAL ARREST.
h. L. Baca Has Been Apprehended on
the Charge Of Counterfeiting--A
$4,000 Bond Required.

R. l.. Baca, a we'll known young man OF
this city, was arrested last night by Sher-
if Cunningham and Deputy Sheriff Page
Otero on charge of making and circulat.
ing counterfeit money.
For some time Sheriff Cunningham
who is also deputy United States
marshal, has had grounds to suspect that
Baca and party named W. B. Lockett
alias Fisher, have been in
PARTNERSHIP IN A SCHEME
for the manufacture and circulation Of
bogus money; and number of COM
plants have been made to the officers OF
the law on account of the presence in
local financial circles of coins that did
not have the ring of the true metal.
These suspicious we're aroused as to
Baca and Loekett by reason of the fact
that the former has been receiving
through various channels, known to the
officers of the law, Russian plate metal,
copper, block tin and other material that
is not usually Of great utility in the pur-
suits to which these parties we're osten-
sibly applying themselves.
These suspicious were further height
ened by the fact that Lockett had, under
the name of Fisher, served term
IN THE PENIrRNT1ARY,
having been sent from Colfax county for
burglary.
About month ago, before the officers
had obtained proof sufficient to make a
move, Fisher decided that things might
soon get too warm for him in this COM
munity and accordingly pulled out for
points unknown. Sheriff Cunningham
and his deputies continued to watch Baca
however, with the result that yesterday
they railed his residence on Palace ave.
nne, his family being absent on visit to
relations south. Here =
| MOST ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS
came to light. A valise was found con.
tanning counterfeiting tools, material
metal and moulds and number of almost
com pleted coins. These latter were in
dollars, halves, quarters and nickels and
were in various stages of completion
Some were simply in the shape of the in
tended com; others wore the imprint oil
the coin, while in other cases the coins
we're milled and almost ready for circula-
tioa. The dollar coins bore the date
1881, the halves bore the year 1874, aud
the nickels and quarters we're from an
1892 press. They were striklngly like the
genuine article in many instances, but
their lightness
MARKED THEM As BOGUS
on very little examination.
Upon his arrest, Baca claimed that
while the valise was his, the contents be-
longed to Lockett. He told, however, a
great many conflicting stories as to his
connection with the matter and the Off
GERS believe that they have dead sure
case against him. He was carried before
| United States Commissioner Victory last
night and waived preliminary hearing.
His bond was placed at $4,000 and in de-
fault OF this he is in the county jail.
WHO BAcA IS.
Baca is son of Hon. Roman A. Baca
and has been quite prominent in local
Republican circles. He was interpreter of
the recent Republican county convention,
was one of the delegates from this county
to the Socorro territorial convention, and
was a member of the Republican terri
torial Genital committee during the re-
cent campaign. He was, in addition,
an active assistant of the Republican
territorial committee. -