The evening times., 1900-05-15
GUILTY OF coUNTERFEIrING.
4 Bogus Money Outht Brought Il
Iirhf in MnrNlnnd

LiEnl IN harNl Nlhnu-
BALTIMORE. Nd. May 15-RCbcrt De
Renick alias R Denson. OF Hayre Ce
! Grace. Nd pleaded guilty in the United
States District Court yesterday morning
of making counterfeit silver half dollars.
In the afternoon George o. Barker. a Gov
ernment Secret Service officer. went 70
Havre de Grace and returned IN a few
hours with Renick's CONTRIBUTING out-
fit
IL was nearly O'Clock in the afternoon
when Mr.. Barker. carrying heavy canvas
covered valise. toiled up the 81 -ps of the
postofTice building to the Office Of District
Attorney John c. Rose. on the third floor.
In TIE district attorneys Office the yalise
was opended and Renick's courterfeitlug
outfit was displayed. Packed in the ya'ise
were fourteen plaster Of paris mclds. each
containing impressions OF the cnplsite
sides OF a silver half dollar The two sides
Of each mold fitted into each other nicely,
an opening being left for pouring in the
molten metal.
The metal was there. too. in long white
bars. resembling solder. There were a's0
in the outfit two long handled iron ladies'
in which the metal had been melted. the
Of packing in the yalise. Anthony ~as
also used by Renicll, as several pieces Of it
were found in the valise. Tn framss.
which had been employed by Renick in
shaping the mOlds. were also in the out
fit.
An illustration of Renick's cleverness in
making the counterfeits was seen in sixty
finished bogus coins in little wooden tox.
The ooins were bright, and so closely re-
sembled the genuine as TO easily deceive.
tin can, also in the valise, was full of
bits Of the counterfeiting metal and coins
that had been spoiled in the molding.
Mr.. Barker secured the valise from the
residence of a colored family at Havre &c
Grace. Reniek had told him just where
to find it, and had given him the key with
which to unlock IT. The cOlored people
in the house, which is about a square from
where Reniek lived in Havre de Grace, had
no idea of what the valise contained
The discovery of the outfit rounds up a
cleverly developed case. II began when
Harry Lewis and Frank Manning, alias
Albert Howard, we're arrested in Balti-
more on May 3 after passing a counterfeit
half dollar. Eight OF the counterfeits were
thrown away by them, but were recovered
and fifty more were found in a room they
had occupied on North Front Street
Mr.. Barker came to Baltimore and be-
gan working on the case on Nav 4 After
conyersing with the two men he went to
Hayre de Grace and had Renick arrested
there on May 3.
At the hearing before Commissioner
Rogers last Thursday Charles Sommers. OF
Philadelphia, appeared as a witness Som
mers said he had bought 500 counterfeit
half dollars from Renick in 1888 and 1899
paying 20 cents apiece for them. Then
Manning, or Howard, IL is understood
made statement that he had bought from
Renick the counterfeit half dollars con-
nected with him and Lewis in Baltimore
The last link in the chain of evidence is /
furnished by the valise containing the
counterfeiting outfit.
Lewis and Manning were Jointly indicted |
last Friday o. the charge of passing the (;
eounterfeits. They both pleaded guilty. |
Two indictments were found against Rem !
lex. One charged him with selling fifty of /
the counterfeits to Manning and the othe. !