The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-23
MONEY FOR
 REVOLUTION Dies Found in New York
 City. TO BE USED IN VENEZUELA Captain Boynton and Other Plot ters Arc Arrested. Scheme Was to Finance Revolt oa Pheaey Coinage and when in Power to Declare Coin
 Good.
10 BE USED IN VENEZUELA.

New York, Aug 22.--On charge of making dies to counterfeit the standard l silver dollars of Venezuela to finance revolution In that country, secret ser- vice officers today arrested Captain George Boynton, former resident man. ager Of the Orinoco corporation of Ven- esuela, and L. Nj. Thompson, an attor~ ney. both of this city. Both prisoners were admitted to ball in s5.ooo.
 Joseph Keller and Sidney A. Keller of Keller Brothers, die makers were also arrested In connection with the case
 The two principals in the case aver that the plan to duplicate Venezuelan money is not counterfeiting. Later, af- ter the revolution proved successful. they said 1t was expected to legaiixs this issue of money. both by executive decree and by act of the Venezuelan Junta- The accused men characterized this plan as a "war measure" They also ailege that half of the South American risings are similarly financed
 So important did the Federal anthori- ties regard the arrests. that Chief Wll~ kie of the secret service. came over from Washington to be personally on the ground when the men were appre- hended With Chief wi1iSie was a foreign looking man who was said 10 be the secretary of the venezuelan ie- gation.
 The story Of the arrests ana the factn leading up to them are interesting, Ac~ cording to Chief Wiikie. and chfaf Flynn of the New York division of fha secret service, Captain Boynton cans 10 New York in June last to finance and lay the preliminary plans for a revolu~ tlon against President Castro.
 He had with him an authorization. which purported to bear the Signature of leading revolutionists. appointing him special commissioners to America, with power to do practically anything and everything in order to get the movement started.
 Captain Boynton. 1t is said. has bean for years the local and resident rnnnn- ger of the Orinoco Concessfoss .a 1,ifa1 ! ized at S5.oOos0e0 and controlling prncs tically the entire Orfnoco delta. If Is charged that when Captain Boynfr@ came to New York in June to get t alleged revolution on foot he und r. took to put in operation a plan similar to that whereby the revolution against Dom Pedro in Brazil was seid to have been financed. that of getting dies, buy. ing bullions. and turning out what sll- yer coin was necessary.
 Later. if the movement proved aucs cessful the issue could be Iegalized. if unsuccessful. no one would be injured, 1t was argued. as the coins were to be made of the same fineness as those reg- ularly coined by the government.
 In some way Captain Hoynton met Lawyer Lewis Nj. Thompeon, an old &C., quaintance. and interested him in the revolution. The captain said he wanted to find man who would advance S1O,- 900 with which to buy the siivsr bui- Hon.
 Lawyer Thompson had difficulty In interesting men of means and finally ap- preached some meu described as sport- ing men. One of these called to see Chief Flynn and talked with him about it There is a Federal law protectinR the coinage of other nations and Chief Flynn decided to investigate. Througt agents he gained the confidence of Boyn- ton and to them the latter confided his plans.
 Dies were to be secured in New York and with e10.000 silver bullion. they were to go to place in the delta of Orinoc0 and there coin the money. Aa soon as the s20.000 made from the sflvef bullion had been expended another pur- chase of s40.000 of silver bullion was to be turned into sRe.000 of venezuei. an money. With tais money munitions of war. ships and other thiHes neces~ sary for a revolution were Co be pur- chased, the captain declared
 Chief Bslynn's agents asked to see tho dies and the captain acQulesccd, When ali seemed harmonious and working fa. vorably. Chief Willrie and Flynn arrest ed Boynton.