The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-31

morning. With newspaper clipping in
his possession giving him the names of
the business men victimzed by the coun-
terfeiters, Mr.. La Sale started out on
what seemed to him to be a forlorn hope.
Success attended his inquiries from the
start. In every saloon on First avenue
from Pike street down to Washington and
In number Of Second avenue business
houses he found the bogus coins. In most
cases the possessors were entirely unsus-
picious and thought them genuine BY
noon he had collected or found traces Of
between twenty-five or thirty more.
Luckily he obtained a fairly good de-
scrtption of the young men who had passed
the money. He gave the description to the
police, who were instructed to arrest the
men If found. Late Thursday night Doyle
was arrested by Officer Hubbard on WASH
ington street. In the Tenderloin district.
Almost as soon as arrested he made
partial confession. Friday morning he
was positively identified by several OF his
victims.
Doyle implicated Weller and q. man whom
The called doc" in the crime. Friday aft
ernoon Mr. La Sale. in company with De-
tective Powers, visited the State hotel,
at 1206Ia First avenue. There they arrested
Weller, who had his valises packed and
was on the point, as he admitted, of going
down to the wharf to take the steamer
for San Francisco. He as put into the
same cell with Doyle. " ,terday morning
the two men were ready to confess, and
gave the information that Doc was
young Willard
The result was that at o'clock yester-
day morning Mr.. La Sale. in company with
his assistant, Nathan Cohn, visited the
residence of DR.. Rufus Willard, on Fourth
avenue, near Spring street, and arrested
young Willard.
Yesterday afternoon the three alleged
III a. TY-.lk \
States Commissioner Kiefer for preliminary
examination. Doyle and Weller waived
examination and were bound over In the
sum of 900 each to await the action of
the United States grand jury next June.
Willard, at his urgent request, was given
until Tuesday to prepare for preliminary
hearing. In default of $1,000 bonds he was
also committed to jail pending his hearing.
After the hearing Mr.. La Sale and Mr..
Cohn took Doyle and Weller and went iato
the woods south Of the city for the pur-
pose of finding the counterfeiters den,
which the two young men agreed to point
out. Darkness fell before the search was
completed, and the officers were COM
PEELED to return to the city. Today they
will resume the search.
Willard has told conflicting stories re-
garding the counterfeit money. The story
he now tells Is that he found 1t In the old
university ground and that there was s12s
of 1t In all. He says he gave 1t to Doyle
and Weller to get rid of 1t. They claim
that he gave 1t to them to be Showed"
and that ne was to receive one-third of
the proceeds.
The officers believe that the story Of the
amount Of the bad money is correct.
Doyle and Weller claim to have thrown
$66 of 1t into the bay at the foot OF Union
street. The bay Is being dragged for the
recovery Of this.
The counterfeit dollars are splendid
specimens OF the counterfeiter's art. They
are perfect in appearance, and weigh but
ninety grains less than the genuine. They
have perfect ring and the alloy is said
to have been made by an expert. They
contain scarcely any silver. They have
frosty appearance The dates are 1899
and 1898.
Doyle and Weller are veritable "howling
swells' In appearance and have fancy
vests. loud shirts. silk underwear and S. 30
hose In profusion. Willard. on the con-
trary. 10 poorly dressed His friends say
that he IL mentally irresponsible.