The Paducah sun., 1906-03-20
Curtis Ingram Confessed to the
COunterfeiting.
II. II. Davis, Employed In a Pawn
Shop, Is Said To Have Made
the Money.
HE WAS ALSO ARRESTED

Curtis Ingram, the former street
car motorman who was arrested Sat
urday afternoon ON the charge of pas
sing counterfeit dollars, made a con-
fession yesterday afternoon after hav
ing been put through the sweating
process" and implicated Henry II.
Davis, an employe of the Ben Mi
chaei pawn shop. claiming that Davis
is hte man who made the money and
that he stood by and watched the OPP
GRAFTON and later passed some of the
money.
Davis was arrested shortly after
the confession and his room at the
Hart house was searched and a lot
OF plaster of paris found. Davis
claimed that Ingram did the molding
of the dollars and that he did the
watching.
The story told by Ingram yester-
day afternoon after the second
sweating" is that he and Davis went
into the Peter jewelry store OF.
South Third street and Davis asked
the proprietor II he might go into the
rear OF the building and use his heat
ing apparatus in melting some lead.
The proprietor agreed and the two.
Davis and Ingram. repaired to the
rear. Davis. Ingram said. melted the
metal and poured II into the plas-
ter of paris mould and made eleven
dollars. Four OF these he gave to In
gram 10 pass. and they were the
same Ingram did pass. Ingram stated
that he did not know what became of
the remainder of the money.
Detective Donella. of the govern
ment service. who arrested DAVIS
and conducted the search of Davis
room, went TO the Peter jewehry
store aud seanched II. He found sew
eral ladies used In melting lead or
metal and aiso some plaster of par
Is moulds with two of the counterfeit
dollars, all of which had been hidden
away by the men who conducted the
money manufacturing business.
THIS morning in police court In
gram was arraigned on the charge of
passing spurious money and was held
over to Detective Donella. of the gov
ernment service. to be tried before
Commissioner w. A. Gardner.
Mr. Joseph Peter has been exoner-
ated from any knowledge of their ac-
tion by the two prisoners, who admit
they went back to melt lead to load
dice with.
81 knew 'HighpUcket" as Ingram
is known" Mr.. Peter stated, "and
last week. ! think Thursday of Fri
day. the two came into my store.
had heard that Davis loaded dice and
sold them. and when 'Highpocket'
asked me 10 let them so back to melt
some metal and load dice, gave
them permission. This was the last |
heard OF II until Ingram was arrested
and confessed. Detective Doneila of
the government. and Moore and Ba-
ker OF the local force, visited my
shop and made search. They found
a large spoon or ladel. some metal
and two spurious dollars. The ladel
had been placed on a rafter In the
rear of my shop and | did not know
it was there. The boys had their own
lamp for heating the metal and new
er suspected them of doing anything
more than loading dice. Davis told me
he had a composition to make trans
parent dice and at the same time load
them. | thought this was what the
two were doing
Detective Donella talked to mt
and stated that he was sure | was
innocent of any knowledge OF what
was going on, he was glad that the
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