San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-20
THAT CIR. COUNTERFEIT
THE DETAILS OF THE PLOT GIVEN
AWAY.
Prominent Citizens Inyolyed-A Woman's
Stupidity Gives 1t Awsy-The
Principals Under Arrest.

Resquezns, the principal conspirator in
the plot to flood Costa Rica with coun-
terfeit bank bills, who is now in Lon
low street Jail awaiting trial, has made
a written confession. This confession
duplicates three wealthy coffee plant
ers in Costa Rica-Jose Campos, Jose
Villalobis and Salvador Ocampo, of
Santo Domingo, Costa Rica-and a
nephew, Quiros, of the present minister
of war of the same name of that re-
public. Requezns intimates that the
minister also had something to do with
this counterfeit business. His confess
sion in part, is as follows:
About July, 1894, Senior Jose Campos
and Senior Villalobis came to this city
from San Francisco, Cal, bringing with
them two stones already engraved for
the printing of 800 bills of the Bank
of Costa RIGA. Campos showed me in
my office a 800 bill of the said bank
and asked me how much it would cost
to print ten thousand of them, making
81, 900, 900 adding that he had, had the
stones made in California for $500. 1
| answered that the kind of work could
| not be done by photographic process,
but by steel plates and print the bills.
1 said $1,000 and that l would do the
job if he would advance $1,000. He
agreed and gave me the money. The
following day Campos and Villalobis
left the city and went to London, ex-
| pecting that upon their return here
the notes would be delivered to them,
but had done nothing and had no in
tention of doing anything in the mat
ter.
TT was seven months after that, in
the month Of February, 1895, that
became acquainted with Federico Mo-
ra. His visit to my flee was in re-
gard to the publication of pamphlets.
When Campos and Villalobis return
ed from London got $1,000 from them
and let them go to Costa Rica under
the impression that I wo'Ild do the job
| and send the bills to them. They
promised to pay me $4,000 more on de-
livery of the bills. Then Campos came
to New York about July, 1895, and urg-
ed me to do the work 1 promised him
to do it if he gave me $1,000 cash to be-
gin at once. He did so, and / spent
that amount making proofs on copper
plates by photograph engraving pro-
cess. l showed Campos two of these
plates.
He went back to Costa RIGA and I
never thought of the matter any more.
Finally he and Villalobis became dis
gusted and sent Senior Quiros here to
push the work. Senior Quiros was the
confidential secretary of Seniors Cam
pos and Villalobis. He is a nephew of
Senior Juan B. Quiros, secretary of war
in President Iglesias' cabinet, which
makes me suspect that the secretary
of war had something to do with the
countefeiting business.
"Senor Quiros promised me $1,000
upon the delivery of the notes. This
was last November. mad copper
plates made by photo engraving pro-
cess for which 1 paid about $500. 1
gave the plates to Mr.. Dohm, VINO had
transferred them to Autograph stones.
Mr.. Dohm spent several weeks doing
the V ork and finished it last Febru-
airy. He made about $500 bills. Senor
Quiros saw them and was very much
pleased with them.
After Quiros left for Costa Rica, Mr..
Dohm and 1 cut the bank notes at
night and then 1 took to my house the
sofa which 1 had in my office since
December last and packed the bills
into it and shipped it to Campos at
Port Limon, Costa Rica.
Il arrived at Port Limon with Mrs.
Reineman under the name of Mr.. Rel
neman. The day after we landed the
chief Of police and the private secre-
tary of President Iglesias came of Lii
mon by special train and was order
ed to leave the country. Before land
ing Mrs. Reineman concealed under
her dress the four packages which 1
had brought in satchel from New
York and she struggled them through
the custom house. Noticing that we
were closely watched and might be
searched we decided to put the four
packages of bills upon a wardrobe.
While 1 was on board Campos ar
rived from the capitol. He and Senior
Cahcen, one of the witnesses sent here
by the government of Costa Rica and
who acted as a confederate of Ocampo
in Limon, came on board and 1 took
them both into my cabin, where I de-
livered to them the bill of lading and
consular invoice. The sofa had ar
rived in Limon about three weeks be-
fore we did.
During our interview asked Ocam- |
20 for the four thousand dollars he |
had promised to pay me. He said he |
had only 5000 in his pocket, and added |
that il Mrs. Reineman went to San |
Jose, the capitol, he would pay her the |
money in about two weeks. This and /
the fact that Mrs. Reineman was to
receive 5000 as her share in the trans
action explains her trip to the capitol. |
81 had told Mrs Reineman not to re- !