Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-01-05
Iu,,. Been Operating in New York
for Two Years.
|coIys ALMOST PURE SILVER
.,, Of secret servIce-ze'I OF
"o0o ,,,.m.u Nearly Frustrated "
Well Laid scheme

,.r,or Ian. 5.-For at least TWO
.,ootns the secret service pe ',lo,,.rs Of
NUM- a. work to discover the maNe, l,' a.
issn az n,,ober Of all silver counterfeit
arg ,.fy quarters and halves
'C'D, , s.ys been freely circulated }"
wn''" work. city during the past TWO
New last night and today officials OF
y'''', So, service Of the treasury de-
, ,Dy mem, under chief wilkes dlreo-
~. - .-rs.tod Pho Paris and seven COM
uO.' ~. =, al, Italians. The coins being
's' limos, pure silver 900 hne' and ialr-
s'.u made they readily passed whe s,,.
" ne Ii,ai '''1d and rendered extremely
g ,N'l,.,p.i, M ASK OF locating the mah-
ers and passeIs' 4"'
about DO this way ...u..- oot,od ON
some time ago two ltallans oS'' Goid
usssrs Platt & Company ol sIiver
sireet New York, dealers IN sheet s,, a,,d
srd Fold and purchased lnou, ,o,a,,
ounces of sheet silver one Oh the iir,
- ohseryed al the time OF the pun
80. An compare one OF the sheets WIN
psi, which he took from his pocket
"a, .o' rlrrnpstance was made known 10
.l' ..lret service officials. the men
~ wv only part OF their purchase win
4 I'm, After time they asalh aP,
,"s,sa and took away another silall
loanGtv 10 M Mangln street on the
w.. IA ~ New York. From there
3,bey we're Swallowed 10 so Walt s'I i..'s
mn he west side Detectives snauoG gu
,bsr with the result that their lodslhB
r I, we're discovered and the fact es-
t,bIisbe8 beyond doubt that at both o.
49, numbers work was being carried
w Yesterday morning one OF the
roouers IN the Mangn street house pc
c,ms suspicious that the men on thes
DOR below we're doing some sort OF
cooked work and he notified "a police
man ON that beat Of his suspicious
rSicb fogt came near rendering inet-
fectiye all the work that had Deeil uohe'
The policeman, not knowing inc "u-
4 thorltles we're watching the house'
went 10 the door and pounded Tor au-
nittance. He was not answered now
ever and soon went away one OF the
panr who had been watching from the
nexf street corner az once notified me
gang OF the suspicious circumstances
and al preciptately fed TO the wait
street place, carrying with them many
OF their dies, coins and blanks
The secret service officials, realizing
the danger Of further delay, immedl
stely forced an entrance into both
houses. where they found several OF the
men, eight in ALL az work The Man
gin street house, as well as the house
on Watt street. was fully equipped
With modern machinery for rolling
silver punching blanks, etc. In one Of
the places a screw press Weighing hye
tons. was IN operation About a humid
red ounces OF silver and quite a large
basket fun u steel dies We're secured.
Many Of the dies, however had been
SO mutilated as to be beyond use. II
seemed that as soon as the policeman
had given the alarm the counterfeiters
began TO file away the faces Of their
ies TO prevent them from being used
as evidence
Chief wake said TODAY that this
gang probably was responsible for at
least V per cent Of all the silver cOun-
teris.ts which have been put In cir
cultuln In New York during the last
two years