Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1895-05-25
MINTs OF BAD COIN
Denver Arrests Lead 70 Startling
Developments.
A suB-MINT At BUTTE, MON
The Gang Appears TO Have Operated a.
Three Different Points at tile
Same Time.

Denver, May 21.-A peculiar circum
| stance In connection with the arrest o.
| James Charles Corbett, George W. Al
| len, Mrs. Gertrude Corbett, Mrs. Mamie
Allen and Mrs. Mile Hyland for COun
| terfeiting ana for having counterfeit
money in their possession, is the fact
| that at about the time Mrs. Hyland left
! Butte, Mont, for what she claims was
visit to relatives in Colorado, the
/ United States authorities Were engaged
IN the task Of ferreting out and apDre-
hending an equally bold gang Of spuri-
GUS coin makers in that city. About
March /, Butte officers received letter
from William Hadlow of that city, in
which information was vouchsafed that
q band Of regularly organized counter
feiters was operating there and that if
guaranteed immunity from punishment,
he would divulge the names Of the MEM
bers, their hiding place ana other useful
knowledge. In this arrangement the
officers temporarily acquiesced and the
result was that Hadlow wrote more let
ters detailing that the band consisted
Of about half a dozen men and giving
their names. Their rendezvous, he said,
was in cave on the outskirts OF town.
the government We're called into the
case. "A detective was sent from Wash
lngtOn Before the detective reached
the scene, Hadl0w had disappeared
from Butte and the ken Of Montana
authorities. 1t was then that the news
was flashed over the country that he
mad been detected by his pals in his act
OF betrayal, and that, in revenge for
hls pertidy, he had been waylaid and
killed. Officers We're at that time
searching abandoned prospect holes
and caverns about Butte.
The sequel proved that the search vas
Ill advised, for shortly after reaching
Butte the secret service agents succeed
cd IN unearthing the mystery Of Had
lows disappearance. It was learned
that he had taken voluntary flight from
Montana. On March 81 his Whereabouts
were discovered and he was arrested by
government officials at OswegO. n. Y.
from that city he was taken back to
Montana, and Silver Bow county |
grand jury indicted him for counter /
feiting.
In the meantime the agent at Butte I
had been at work, and in conjunction
With local officers, had effected the aD- /
orehension Of Sanford w. Currier ana
:. e. Nelson, two other members OF the I
2and. In addition, it was learned that a
mere We're many others connected with
he laWbreaking confederat ton and even
2 this time efforts are being made TO
un them to earth. Currier and Nelson
ire under indictment. along with Had
oW, The story of the cave was proved
g have been a fabrication on the part
# Hadlow.
1t was about the date Of the arrest of
sufrier and Nelson that Mrs. Hyland
eft Butte on a visit to her stap-sisters,
fTs. Corbett and Mrs Allen, in this
ity That was not her first visit, how
yer, for on frequent other occasions
he came to Colorado for the same
stensible purpose. Before she became
irs. Hyland she was Mrs. Jack Thomp-
on. Hyland IS q saloon-l1eeDer.
Developments In the now famous case
this city point strongly to the fact
nat the Butte mint was an offshoot OF
re Denver headquarters, and while it
not openly averred by the depart
lent that Mrs. Hyland was a member
[ the gang at that point, or that shf
cted as gO-betWeen for the Butte
nd Denver operators, her detention was
lrgely on suspicion that she might have
cen. 1t is also claimed that there was
sub-nint in Cheyenne and the recent
nding Of moulds and spurious Going =,
y officials Of that place is recalled.
Irs. Hyland il out on bonds Of 500 to :
opear at the preliminary hearing be-
re Commissioner Capron next Satur-
az, while Mrs. Allen and Mrs. COR
EFT are under $500 bonds.