The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06
REPRODUCED CURRENCY, BY
 MEANS OF A CAMERA.
Both of Them Put Under Bond in the Sum of Five Thousand Dollars Each-PreliminaTy
 Trial Monday.

R. Clayton Hicks and Jim Williams the young white men who were arrested early yesterday morning charged with passing counterfeit money. confessed their guilt to Police Captain w. H. Taylor yesterday morning, and late in the af- ternoon Hicks and Williams were ar- raigned before United States Commis- sioner John A. Elmore, who continued the cases against them until Monday morning at 10 o'clock, and fixed their bonds at S5, ,0OO. each.
 In confessing to Police Captain Taylor. Hicks and Williams said they resided near Centreville, Bibb County, where they conducted a photograph gallery. Af- ter experimenting in photogravure work, they said, they reached the conclusion that by careful photography, they could make spurious government currency.
 Their secret experiments covered many weeks and when they succeeded through the photographic process in counterfeit ing several hundreds of dollars worth of bills, they left their country home and proceeded to try the homemade money on the city folk. They were candid in telling of the success with which they met in. Montgomery, and according to their statements, numerous counterfeit $2O bills and s bills are now floating about the city.
 When they were arrested, Police Cap- tain Taylor took from Hicks and Will Hams several spurious bills. After their confession, they produced the genuine bills from which the commercials were made. The $20 bills were photographed from a $20 gold certificate. Tho $5 bills were taken from a silver certificate. Each side of these genuine bills was placed before a camera and duplicated on extra fine silk paper. Then the two photo- graphs were pasted together so nicely that the bill had the proper thickness and closely approached real money.
 In the photographic process tho color was slightly changed, although doubting ones in receiving the bill for exchange would easily have attributed the soiled coloring to dampness or wear of a purse It was enough to observe the perfect signatures of Ellis H. Roberts, Treas- urer of the United States and J. w. Lyons the negro Register of the Treas ury.
 The counterfeitlng was executed as cleverly as Is usually done by counter feiters using plates. The Bibb County men only gave their attention to making $2O bills and s bills
 When they had gotten together good ly bunch of these spurious bills, they left their Bibb County homes and went out into the world to distribute the mon- ey of their make and to have a good time. True, they had real money for which they had worked. but what was honest money to them when they had set up @ money mill of their own?
 Reaching Montgomery, R. Clayton Hicks and his companion of the lesser name began to distribute money. 1nci- dentally they took in the good things that money will buy when lavishly spent.
 They had suppers and things that make "the pace that kills" and their pace led them into the clutches of the police and their names are now written in Uncle Sam's book along with others who have heretofore tried this game.
 Late Friday night Hicks and Williams