The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-22

Denver, May 21.-A peculiar circum-
stance in connection with the arrest of
James Charles Corbett, George w.
Allen, Mrs. Gertrude Corbett, Mrs Al7
len and Mrs. Mile Hyland for counter
feiting and for having counterfeit
money in their possession, is the faci
that at about the time Mrs. Hyland
left Butte Mont, for what she claims
was a visit to relatives in Colorado.
the United States authorities were en-
gagged in the task of ferreung out and
experimenting an equally bold gang OF
spurious coin makers in that city.
About March 1 the Butte officers re-
ceived a letter from William HadloW
Of that city, in which the information
was YouchSafed that a. band of regu-
lal.ly organized counterfeiterS was
operating there, and that if guaranteed
immunity from punishment he would
divulge the names Of the members,
their hiding place and other useful
knowledge. In this arrangement, the
officers temporarily acquiesced and the
result was that Hadlow wrote more
letters detailing that the band con-
sisted of about half a dozen men and
giving their names. Their rendezvous,
he said, was in a cave on the outskirts
Of town.
Secret Agents Come In.
At this point secret service agents
Of the government were called into the
case. A detective was sent from Wash.
ington. Before the detective reached
the scene of the alleged operations,
however, Hadlow had disappeared
from Butte and the ken of the Montana
authorities. It was then that the news
was flashed over the country that he
had been detected by his pals in his
act of betraying them, and that, in
revenge for mis- perfidy, he had been
Wayldid and killed. The officers were
at that time searching the abandoned
prospect holes and caverns aboua
Butte.
The sequel proved that the search
was illadvised, for shortly after reach
ing Butte the secret service agent sue
eeeded in unearthing the mystery of
disappearance. 1t was
learned that he had taken voluntary
fight from Montana On March q his
were discovered and he
was arrested by government officials
at OswegO, n. Y. From that city he
was taken back to Montana, and !
him for counterfeiting. He now awaits
trial.
Was an OHshOot.
In the meantime, the agent at Butte |
had been at work and, in conjunction |
with the local officers, had effected tina |
Of Sanford w. Currier |
and c. T. Nelson, two other members |
Of the band. In addition it was learned |
that there were many others connected |
with the lawbreaking confederation |
and even to this time efforts are being
made to run them to earth. Currier
and Nelson are under indictment, along
with Hadlow. The story of the cave
was proved to have been a fabrication
on the part of Hadlow
It was at about the date of the ar
rest of Currier and Nelson that Mrs.
Hyland left Butte on visit to her
stepsisters, Mrs. Corbett and Mrs. AL
EN- in this city. That was not her first
visit, however, for on frequent other
occasions she had come to Colorado
-or the same ostenSible purpose. Be-
,ore she became Mrs. Hyland she was
Mrs. Jack Thompson. Hyland is a
saloon keeper.
Developments in the now famous
case in this city point strongly to the
act that the Butte mint was an off
shoot of the Denver headquarters. and
Whlie 1t is not openly averred by the
tepaTthent tnat Mrs. Hyland was a
mem Der of the gang at that point. or
mat she acted as a go-between for the
Suite and Denver operators her de-
enuon was largely on the sI1snicion
nat she might have been. 1t is also
'lalmed now that there was a sub-
mint in Cheyenne, Wyo.. and the re-
ent finding of moulds and spurious
'oins by the officials at that place ;e
ecalled. Mrs. Hyland is out on bonds
# 500 to appear at the preHuninarv
hearing before Commissioner Canron
lext saturday, while Mrs. Allen and
Hrs. Corbett are under s50o ho az
rhe father of the women and 'g aus
FAY are on the bonds wi > /