St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-07
RAN A CASH FACTORY
Connecticut Counterfeiters'
Gang Did a Wholesale
Business.
THE PLANT UNEARTHED.
Thousands Of Dollars in Spu-
rious Coins and Notes
Captu red.
MORE ARRESTS EFFECTED.
Details Of How a Clue to the
Workings Of the Gang
Was Secured.

NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-United States
secret service officers employed In the
big counterfeiting case are filling the
office of the secret service bureau in
this city with paraphernalia with which
the band were producing their spurious
wealth.
The plant of the counterfeiters is sit
uated on small farm at Bethel, Conn.
Today Chief William P. Hazen, of the
United States secret service department
at Washington, and chief of the New
York division, gave an outline of the
work which has been done in the case.
1t appears the detectives have been
working on the case since June l. They
made an important point wnen they ar.
rested Samuel A. Massey. restaurant
keeper in this city.
An advertisement in New York city
newspaper was answered by person
whose name is withheld. The latter.
believing there was something wrong,
took the letter received to the secret
service buaeau. 1t was answered by
Chief FOrsythe, who managed to bring
the advertiser and the man who first
replied to the advertiser ent together.
The advertiser proved 10 be Massey.
He proposed to sell the other party
So, 400 worth of counterfeit money for
500. Chief Forsythe was informed.
He provided 500 marked money and the
deal was completed. Massey was arrest
ed with the marked money in his pos
session.
Then followed the arrest Of Russell D.
Hoyt at Bethel, Conn. Later, John w.
Murphy was arrested. and today held
for examination OH Friday. Saturday
night last Lorenzo Hoyt, brother OF
Russell HoYt, was rrrested at Bethel
Conn.,, where he is now held.
Detectives have been seaching the
premises where Lorenzo Hoyt lives for
several days. They have been rewarded.
Chief Forsythe today displayed $4,000
in one package. This was in $40 bank
notes, with the Webster head, and they
were called
Good Counterfeits.
They had not, however, been put
through what is known as the coffee
coloring process. This gives the spuri-
Gus notes the appearance of having been
in circulation. The chief also showed
large number of other bills, which have
gone through the coffee coloring," and
were ready for use.
At Hoyt's house OF Bethel were found
all the plates, paper, ink, red silk
thread and other articles used in the
manufacture of the spurious money.
Chief Forsytte would not say Gu what
part OF the premises they were found.
He said the detectives are now digging
up the ground around the Hoyt house
to find the printing press, which is be-
lieved to be buried.
Among the plates found were the
back. front plates and the United States
treasury set for a $40 bill on the Mystic
River National Bauk of Mystic River,
Conn. The dies for $40 gold coin of
the 1862 series were unearthed. None
of the money from these had been circu-
lated.
A large quantity of the fibrous paper
of which bank notes are made was also
seized. 1t is unknown whether this paper
is made in England or America. 1t may
be made somewhere near the Hoyt
premises in Connecticut. 1t is ali excel.
lent imitation OF paper used for bank
notes.