The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-30

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the previous afternoon, he mad worked
long and hard, at short intervals, to
elicit a story having a semblance OF
truth from this man, being already
sure enough that Cooper was the one
who had given out the coins for circu-
lation.
| Cooper did now make complete and
connected statement of his criminality.
OF course, pending the use of the con-
fession in court, Mr.. Breckons could not
give it's matter out for publication. Yet
he gave an Advertiser reporter the
main particulars of the discovery, in
Guiding incidents of the short and sharp
chase that resulted in the running to
: earth of practically the whole gang
, concerned.
Cooper got his plaster of paris
mOulds and worked the thing in a very
clever manner" Mr.. Breckons said.
We know where he bought the
plaster of paris.
! He made two denominations of the
bogus money, the total amount being
! $500. OF this amount $3.50 was in fives
and $3.50 in tens.
Last Saturday afternoon he tried to
street places, but he failed.
! Being convinced that he could not
! do it and, as he says, being told by
his conscience that he was not doing
right anyway, he threw his coins away.
He also broke up his moulds and now he
has told where he hid the pieces.
He turned over the $40 pieces to a
soldier who is probably by this time
under arrest.
Tomorrow morning we will search
. the duck pond into which Cooper says
he threw the So pieces.
He bought the Rabbit metal-which
the coins were made of and not lead
at the Pacific Hardware Company.
"All that we have got so far, except
ing the few coins put out, is the gold
platter.
no. a preliminary examination of
Cooper Will hardly now be required, as
no doubt he Will waive examination
since he has confessed.
.'Of the others, we may hold the one
who passed the So piece. We may have
to find out Something further about the
man found with the $40 piece in pos
session.
Later the man to whom the stock
of SO pieces was given was arrested
by Marshal Hendry and placed in jail.
His name is William r. Bolton.
The speedy work done by District
Attorney r. w. Breckons and Marshal
f. r. Hendry in utterly smashing the
counterfeiters plot to victimize the
people of this Territory will be appre-
ciated by business men and everybody
else in the community.
1t was only Monday afternoon that
the matter was reported to the U. ,.
District Attorney. A man was under
arrest at o'clock the same after
noon. This was one who had passed
a s. piece on an electric car last Sat
urday On Tuesday afternoon the off,
Gals had got in some witnesses. Sub
stantial progress was made on We'd
nesday, and yesterday the hunt was
brought to a completely satisfactory
conclusion.
Prior to the arrest of Bolton last
night four persons suspected as either
principals or accessories to the crimes
the counterfeiting and the uttering of
the coin-were in custody Others were
under some degree of surveillance II
not actually restrained. All are soldi-
ers of the 18th company of Coast Ar
tillery, which with the 92nd company
forms the garrison at Camp Mckinley.
Next week the garrison is to be trans
ferred to the mainland, fact that is
believed to have been considered by
Cooper and whoever may be implicated
with him in the happily futile attempt
to fleece the community.
James T. Cooper is serving his first
enlistment, having enlisted at Okla
n l-t Since
coming to Honolulu he has made an
ostentatious profession of religion. He
was baptized in the Christian church
here and became a vigorous exhorter
in the Young Peoples Society of Chris
tan Endeavor.
Thomas Hilson, the second man. got
into trouble by passing one of the 50
pieces on an electric car Saturday. He
had paid his fare with a dollar and
then asked the conductor, Louis B.
Reeves, to change five dollar gold
piece. The conductor gave him silver
coin, but being suspicious of the gold
coin kept it separate. At the Rapid
Transit Co.'S office the piece was re-
jected as spurious.
James Jackson, also serving his first
enlistment dated at San Francisco on
Aug SI 70, 4SuO was Caught NANA g
bad so piece. He claimed he had got
it back in a saloon for a genuine piece
for which the barkeeper could not make
change.
James Langley, the fourth man. will
probably be. let out. 1t looks as if he
had been approached by Cooper with
out committing himself to the plot.
Marshal Hendry brought eight SOL
diers as witnesses from Camp McKin-
Leg, in two automobiles Yesterday morn