The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-27
BAD MONEY IN
SHOES AND NECKT|E
two Men Loaded With Counter
felt Bills Arrested in
!, Murray.
EWERE TRYING TO WORK OFF
/ BOGUS BILLS ON MERCHANTS
fDeputy Sheriff Arrests the pair
and They Are Now in
Jail.

What tho authorities Think are tv,
VERY clever green-goods men were ar
frosted at Murray Tuesday evening ,,
deputy Marshal Caldwell Of that place
fShezif Emery was notified Of the cap
Iturs and Deputy Sheriff Sharp was de
tailed to bring the men TO tho count!
Hall. Sharp and his prisoners arrived
Fat about IL O'Clock and the men wer,
Hooked up, charged with passing coun
lterfSit money. 1t is very likely that The
EFederal authorities VIII take hold o
THE matter at once.
The men gaye their names rs, Ed
lrward Cook and Thomas Rowley. Cook
tds q years old and looks younger. Bow.
hey is @ dark, eTnoot-Shaven man, per
Ehaps rs years Of age
Had Countetfeit Bills
Z Cook and Rowley went to Murray
RTuesday evening on an electric car
LAS soon as they arrived they entered
1he Phoenix saloon. conducted by Ton,
Ganagher, and rendered him q SO Dill.
iGallAgher casually inspected the
sJnonay and handed 1t back to the boys,
lsaying the4 1t was not good.
Immediately aftcrward the men left
fhe saloon, Gallagher following them.
tThey then entered ShiHey Cahoop's
drug store and attempted to change an
lother SID bill Cahoon was about to
comply when Gallagher motioned 10
him that tho bill was counterfeit and
that no should not change It, Cahoon
then refused to break the bill for the
Fboys.
Coolly the men walkedsinto,the street.
Before thay had gone far they were
AarTested by Deputy Marshal Caldwell
SAnd lodged IN the Murray calaboose.
suspicious actions Of the two and had
Sdetailed Caldwell to make the arrest
FThe men made no resistance and en-
dered their cells quietly.
/ When Deputy Sheriff Sharp arrived
he at onoe went TO their cells and be-
gan to search them In almost every
article OF clothing upon them, the
officer, 1t IS claimed. found counterfeit
money. In their neclties In their
shoes. In their hose. their trouser-
bands, hathands and In the lining of
their coats was the spurious money
found, 1t is said,
Stuffed With Countcrfeits.
When Sharp attempted to take Row
1eys necktie off the prisoner objecrcd
and dded TO pass the scarf to his al
legged confederate. But the officer was
too quick, and upon ripping open the
cravat found 1t stuffed full OF coun-
Ierfelt bills.
Both men talked readily at the jail
esday night. Cook. who ls a mere
STRIPPING and a good-looking one, said
that he was q waiter by trade and
that's he came here Sunday last from
San Francisco by way of Reno.
He stopped off at Reno. he said, and
p1aysd cards with a stranger In a sa-
loon near the depot. Cook won con-
siderable money. he said. and was paid
by the stranger in the bills, which the
officers later found upon him at Muir
ray and at the county Jail. The youth
ful prisoner claims that he knows
nothing concerning the mysterious
stranger who handed him the green
goods: that he did not know the money
was bad, and that the money In his
opinion is good.
RoWley tells an entirely different
story. He Is a low-browed man, with
marks Of dissipation on his face. It
fs said he Is an opium eater, and a bag
of tho stuff was found strung around
his neck, when searched. Rowley said
that he came here Sunday last from
Seattle and that he was a painter ma
decorator by trade.
+ Asked how long he had known Cook.
the Enan replied that he had met Cook
on the car Tuesday evening on the way
TO Murray, and that he had become ac-
quainted with him then. Rowley also
eaid thai the first sight he had of the
counterfeit money was when Cook
handed him a couple OF bills on the
sly while they were detained in The
Murray lookup.
Evadcs Questions.
When one OF the deputy sherif1o
asked him lHAw he happened TO have
50 much Of the green goods In his neck
tie. shoes and other parts OF his cloth
ing, Rowley affected astonishment and
tried to evnde further questioning. The
authorities are Of the opinion that In
the event OF a trial Rowley will turn
States evidence and give his alleged
pal away.
i Rowley had IN his possession a union
travelling card. showing him to be
rnember OF a painters and decorators
union IN Seattle, and also a member
fof The Central Labor council in that
city, He said he had lived there for
1no1e than two years, and that he also
had worked In Belllngham. Wash. On
the fly-leaf Of a small memorandum
book taken from Rowley the words &C.
w. Anthony" and notify father In
Brooklyn" appear. In his cell Row1ey.
or Anthony. said he originally came
from Brooklyn. and Il is supposed that
the name Rowley is an alias. Row
icy is very illiterate.
Countcrfeits in Plenty.
In all. more than $1,000 in counterfeit
SO and s. bills was found cleverIy
concealed on the prisoners. The bIIIs
will pass muster almost anywhere, and
are OF very good workmanship. Across
- face of the bills are tho words.
merchants and Planters BANK ~ 90
vannah, Georgia" The notes are de-
mand notes, but the date OF issue is
not printed on them, neither arc the
guide numbers.
The engraving and general appear
ance OF the bills are excellent: Instead
OF having fine silk threads running
through them, however. 1t was discov
cred that red and blue lines, represent
ing the threads. were drawn on the
bills. A steamboat OF the Southern
type and locomotive and trein, of
cars are engraved on the bills.
The name OF S. A. Roberts appears
as cashier of the bank, Careful han
ding Of tho bills shows that the front
and back are two pieces of paper
pasted together SO tngeniously as to
closely resemble good money.
Many Victims