The Green Forest tribune., 1900-10-25
COUNTERFEITERS CAUGHT.
Gang That Had Long Been Oper-
 ating Near Eureka Springs.

sJ gives the following account of the capture of a gang of counterfeit CTS which was operating in cave near that place:
 Through the efforts of Deputy U. S. Marshal Hammack, assist ed by the City police force, there has been unearthed a gang of counterfeiters within four miles of Eureka Springs, whose illegal work has been going on for years and years. Five men are now in jail as result of the disclosures, some of them have admitted their guilt.
 At rare intervals during the past few years small coins of spurious character have been passed in this vicinity. It was not prominent enough to direct suspicion with certainty, howev- CT, until recently when MT. Ham, mack got an inkling of prepara- tions being made in the vicinity to make coins of large denomi- nation. He waited for some evi- dence of the fact to crop forth, and it appeared a week ago last Saturday when a counterfeit S5 gold piece was passed on MT. Happen in this city. There was nothing said about this at the time, and last Saturday another of the same kind was passed on Mr. c. A. Branham. The two parties who did this were immed- lately indentified, arrested and taken to Fort Smith. Marshal Hammack determined to find the rendezvous of the outlaws, and how well he succeeded is shown by the fact that the entire gang is now in jail, with their tools, etc., in possession of the author ities.
 In following up his suspicious, Deputy Hammack went to Com missioner Pendergrass yesterday and got several warrants for "parties unknown. ;" He then got Chief Gordon and Policeman Carroll, and they proceeded to Bennett's s cave, four miles from the city. They found Stephen Allen at the place, the man who claims to have first discovered the cave, and who has been in the country for about 21 years. He did not suspect them of being officers, and placed the cave at their disposal, as they informed him that they desired to see the sights. Mr. Carroll remained on the outside and engaged Allen in conversation, while Hammock and Gordon explored the cavern. The results exceeded their ex- pectations. In looking around in the grooves, etc., Mir. Ham, mack's attention was directed to one in particular, and in inyes- tigating it he pulled out the set of new dies with which the S5 gold counterfeits were made. Further investigation revealed hundreds of other tools and par aphernalia, including six pairs of molds, a wise, small black smith outfit, screw press, etc.
 Allen was placed under arrest in the meantime, and finally gave away much information concern ing the place, which was of as- sistance in finding the outfit as the cave is about 400 yards deep and things were carefully hidden in various places. Through AL len it was found that others in- terested were one W. F. Tender son and the well known Richard Bennett who for years has owned the cave. Bennett has for some time been living at Rogers, though he has paid frequent visits to this place, and Allen ln- formed the officers that Tender son owned the gold plating out fit and was at Bentonville, having left for there a day or two ago. Allen was brought into town, and | Hammack and Gordon left at s: 40 last night to get the two others. They returned at noon today with both men under arrest.
 Henderson was caught at Ben tonville. He came here last fall, and has been spending much of