New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-20
PLATES IN EAST RIVER
SO Says Last of Counterfeiting
Gang To Be CAPTURED.

After two years and ten months of treless pur-
SUIT the secret Service operatives have run TO
earth the last OF nine counterfeiters whose trail
OF deceptive dollars extended from Bridgeport to
ST. Louis. More than a thousand spurious notes
nave been recovered the plant" tools with
which the men worked have been conhscated. and
All tho gang are under lock and key-yet there
sui remains one fact to cause Chief Wilkie some
dlsquiet The plates from which were printed the
last batch Of bills put by the counterfeiters
have not been found and until they are discovered
and destroyed the chief will not be convinced that
the "Satow notes are actually out OF circulation
Charles Adamson, the last of the nine to fall
INTO the net, takes oath that he threw the plates
into the East River As the oaths of captured
counterfeiters however generally con-
Sldered any better than the money they make. and
as Aadamson's only proof of the immersion OF the
plates is the river the Secret Service officials Will
continue TO keep a sharp lookout for the plates
Alfred Satow, the leader of the counterfeiting
gang, first arrested in February 1902. in
Chicago, where he had begun the manufacture
OF counterfeit 81 silver certificates, while en-
ployed by newspaper engraver. The police
captured 200 of his fraudulent bills and his plates.
and he was sent to prison for eighteen months.
In December, 1903. Satow and his gang bega:! TO
put more counterfeits. starting at ST Louis.
Charles Radcliffe Of the gang, was arrested
by the Secret Service men. but the counterfeit
notes continued to appear in several cities Of the
Middle West.
house in Allegheny Penn. led the arrest Of
James Hutchinson. but two other members Of the
gang who had been working with him escaped
Last June the detectives caught George Evans.
who was circulating counterfeit s. Indian head
silver certificates in this city. and later Satow
himself was caught here Both now serving
The ive-dollar continued to circulate in the
East even after the settlement OF Satow's affairs
the Secret Service men knew their work was not
completed. They suspected the Adamson brothers
as they had been known associates of Bribery in
the old days In Bridgeport, Conn. one day. the
clerk at a leading hotel informed the police that
three suspicious characters had registered there
The officers looked them over and decided that two
of them were wanted. These two proved to be
Lloyd and Leyrer. The officers did not think it
He. who proved afterward 10 be Charles Adam
arrest Of his friends Guess iii go out and see
what's been done with the other boys he said to
two or three hours after that a bundle OF 1870
terfeit hve-dollar notes was picked up beside the
AdaInson had evidently tossed them out Of a car
York. Then the search for the Adamsons was re-
doubled. II learned by the detectives that PauI
had freQuanted cafe in this city a great deal. so
apnearrd hit as charles WIS Wanted more than
he. his arrest deferred in the hope that his
A week ago Saturday might, Paul entered the cafe
This. the detectives who were shadoV'ng the place
thought. was an ndlca ton that ne had shppeu out
through some secret entrance end had got away y
On Sunday he was arrested in the cafe. where he
had secreted himself overnight for robbery.
Agent Henry, at Paterson. picked up Bates. still
another OF the gang. A watch placed on the
TOnbs. where Paul Adamson imprisoned.
woman who called TO Paul was followed 70
her home and there. at s o'clock last Tuesday
evening, Charles AdaInson caught by two Sc
Cret Service who waiting for him. He
lived the office OF the Secret Service Bureau for
two days, liking II better there than the ToTbs.
he said. The Secret Service treated him
kindly that ne agreed to assist them in every way
possible to unravel any mysteries connected with
the and gave them 10 Of the fve-dolar notes
In Charles Adamsons room, uptown. were Satow's
engraving tools. At any rate. AdamsOn said they
belonged To Satow. Adamson taken to Bridge
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