Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-07-03
COUNTERFE|TER WAVES
EXAMINATION
TODAY
George U. Hall Goes to Jail
to Await Trial in
Default of $1,000
Bond.
He HAD COMPLETE
COMING OUTFIT
Mention of His Wife and Child
Causes Him Pain and He
Seems to be Regretful
Only on Their
Account.

DR.. G. U. Hall, the sickly looking
little man, caught boldly making dol
lars and half dollars yesterday af
ternoon, was taken before United
States Commissioner II. r.. Whiting
at his office in old town this after
noon at 2 o'clock by Deputy U. S.
Marshals w. r. Forbes and Harry ].
Cooper. Assistant United States At
torney +. l.. Medler appeared as
prosecutor for the government.
A warrant was sworn out charging
Hall with illegally coming money and
passing the same.
Hall pleaded guilty to the charge
and waived examination. He was
bound over to the district court to
appear before the grand jury under
$4,000 bond. In lieu of furnishing the
bond he was committed to the county
Jail. The district court will next
meet in September.
His Outfit i'm Court
A grip loaded with the counter
feiting paraphernalia was brought to
the home of u. s. Commissioner
Whiting and DR.. Hall explained how
he made the coins and his reasons
for doing so.
Hall was .n weak physical con-
dition; he was i'll last night and he
answered questions today in waver-
ing manner. The mans constitution
has been undermined by the use of
drugs; his hands shook and in other
ways he showed much nervousness.
He objected to the presence of a
newspaper reporter in the room, and
expressed a wish that no publicity be
given to his ccime.
When the grip containing the plas-
ter of paris molds, bottles of acids,
scrapers, particles of metal and bog
us coins in various stages of COM
pletion, was opened the prisoner
W I'm cd
the sight.
Pitiful Testimony.
In a whining voice he said: "A
| few weeks ago / never dreamed OF
doing such things. / never did any
thing wrong before. | was in del
| and had been borrowing money.
borrowed so much that 1 hated to
borrow any more and so / began
making this money to hold me over
till l could get something to do"
How did you happen to think OF
| this method of coming money!" he
was asked.
81 used to make plaster molds and
fashion little nicknacks when I was
boy" answered Hall, "I never
| dreamed I would ever do this"
"How many dollars of this kind
have you coined?" asked Assistant
| u. S. Attorney Medler.
81 don't know-not very many"
|
| in the city?"
81 don't know-not over a Dozen
Ready for Punishment.
DIR. Hall was vague In his facts
| due apparently not to his gesire tC
conceal facts, but from a more or less
| deranged condition of his brain
Throughout the interview Hall seem.
ed anxious to make a full breast OF
| the affair, take his punishment and
be done with it. He inquired how
long he would have to spend in the
penitentiary. He was told that the
extreme penalty for his crime was ter
years in the penitentiary or a fine Of
| $500 or both.
He denied positively that he haC
| any confederates in the business anC
| protested that he had only made
coins for the last two or three weeks
He manufactured the bogus dollar
he denied making coins of any 9th
er denomination-by using two plas
ter of Paris moulds for each coin
The coins were made in one piece in
stead of two as 1t was at first sup