El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-29

search Fontsine's room, he found that
the prisoner had three places of lode-
ing. The first place that WAS visited
was room on North Oregon street,
number COL. The landlady responded
to the knock, and before the officer
could present his papers she held up "A
copy of the HERALD, saying, 81 see it
here: I know what you want
AT the room the detective found two
cigar boxes full Of currency in denomi-
nations of five, ten, twenty, and fifty.
In another box he found a lot of coppers
and nickels in an unfinished state, some
dimes, and large amount
of copper and nickel which could
be used in the manufacture of
small coin. Besides this were found two
or three cups of colored paints and
many small brushes, which were sup
posed to have been used by de Fontsine
to touch up the bills after they were
turned over to him. as a good many of
those captured were in very crude
state.
where the bills have been lithogrsph-
ed is still worrying the officers. The
work was pretty we'll done however.
or the SIS, 900 found the fifty dollar bills
vera made from q plate
reproduced from the form Of the
Princeton National bank, OF Prince
ton, N. j.: the twenty dollar
bills were of the government silver
certificate issue having picture of
Manning: the ten dollar bills were
taken from a bank nearer home, the
Phoenix National bank of Phoenix.
Arizona: the FIVE dollar bills we're of
the United States treasury note
issue. There was one which is puzzliog
the best treasury detective in the
service, and that was one of the new
series which was issued in the fall of
1896. This last bill is the first count
erfeit of the new series which has been
heard of.
DE FoNTAINE WANTS JUDGMENT
WITHHELD.
The deputy marshal left instructions
with the jailer to see that no one talked
him. A reporter of the HERALD went
to the jail to see another prisoner
who happened to be in the cell
was learned that De Fontaine
still says that he will come out all
right. He doesn't think the papers
have given him a fair deal. He has
one request to make of the HERALD. as
he says that the HERALD will always
OObd sie' CS W 0uSSSiOu. dS le LAS
a side he wishes to ask the public to
suspend their opinion of the case until
he is given hearing before the courts.
Judge Pevton F. Ed Yards has been se-
cured to defend him.
STORIES OF THE PAST
George de Fontaine came to Ell Paso
from Mississippi or Louisiana, and
C Claims to be of French descent. He
holds membership in the United Con-
federate Tetera MS. was W wearing q badge
at the time of his arrest. and was an
active member OF the John Brown
camp. For long time he was in the
bill posting business at this place and
was thought to be making money
About q year ago he began telling his
friends that he was stepping high,
as q relative had died some where In
South Carolina and left him aboutS TO-
600. Right after springing this news
on the public he sold out his bill post
ing business to the International Adj
vertisipg Co. and began to live off the
interest OF his money. Soon after this
his wife died, and 1t was said she left
him small amount of life insurance as
she Was member in some woman's
auxiliary to a seer ct order.
Now that de F'Ontaiue has been ar
rested there are a good macy stories
SolpS tHS TOunus rs I'd now re 2p-
preached different parties in regard to
using this kind of money.
One of these stories told is that about
three months ago de Fontsine ap-
preached couple of young men and SIS
he considered them his good friends he
began to tell them how easy it would
be to make money in the camps around
Santiago among the soldiers and in the
town. OF course, being hard work.
ing young men, they want
ed to get rich as quickly ss
possible and seemed Interested, SO the
three went into the rear OF an Ell Paso
street saloon and there in one of the
small rooms, over glass of beer
George made them proposition. The
scheme was for the three of them to
get hold of some of the "queer," 90 to
uba with it. and buy anything of COM
mon use. paying the price asked for by
the owners; then when the
war was over to get away and dispose
of the go1ds which had been thus &C.
cumulated. In that way they would
be started on the road to wea't The
two young men didn't think they ought
to monkey with Uncle Sam that way.
and didn't take up the proposition as
quickly as others might so the scheme
fell through.
Another story has it that at one time
two eastern men who claimed to be
newspaper men came to Ell Paso and
started paper aud named it the
"Mercnry." While this paper was
being published here Ia Ell Paso Mr..