The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-22
TROUT CREEK NAN AND FAMILY
ARE ARRESTED FOR coUN-
TERFllTING.
AGED FATHER COtFtSStS
Attempt Of Son Of J. S. Lee to Pass
Bad Money in Standpoint Leads to
iIy-Father Is Surprised in Cabin,
Where Offic.rs Find Money.
Special to The Daily Missoulian.

Special to The Daily Missoulian.
Thompson Falls, Sept. 21.-A sue
cessful capture was made by the sher-
ifs forces of Sanders and Bonner
counties today, when they placed in
custody a party of counterfeiters,
whose range of operations is proble-
matical. The arrests were made at
and near Trout Creek and the in
dividuals who were caught are mem-
bers of the family of ]. s. Lee, ST..
and include the aged father, pa
triarch to look at, but one of the
shrewdest, cleverest counterfeiters in
the business, the Officers say: the wife,
Mrs. Lee; a son. John Lee, a cripple.
but who, it is said. served an appren-
ticeship as a jeweler, and two smaller
children. Another son, Henry Lee, was
arrested i'm Standpoint a day or two ago
and it was his arrest that resulted in
today's successful coup.
Henry Lees arrest came through his
efforts to pass the ''phoney" money
on a woman in Standpoint. She at
tempted to pass the money she re-
ceived from Lee and the cola was re-
fused. She sought out Lee and caused
his arrest, and he put up light
when the officers attempted to take him
making vain attempt to draw gun.
Upon Lees person when searched
the Standpoint officers found s205 in
bogus coin, IS and SO gold pieces,
silver dollars and half dollars. The
limitations were so cleverly executed
that they passed the careful scrutiny
ne hap n1a
saloonmen took them without hesita-
tion.
Leo Is Re.icent.
Sheriff Merrill of Bonner county.
Idaho, tried in vain to ,..cit from his
prisoner the source of the "phoney"
coin, but Lee refused to divulge his
own residence, much less involve the
other members of the family. Then
Sheriff Merrill called Deputy Sheriff
Fred Tissue from Sanders county To
see his prisoner, hoping that he might
identify him, but he did not know
him. BY having cards printed bear
ing the name of III. ]. Stone attorney
at law. giving an impossible room
number in the Paulson building in Spo-
kane. Tissue succeeded in getting Lee
to make confidant of him to the
extent of disclosing where his family
lived, and that the 'old man" was
the manufacturer of the bogus coins.
Through Henry Lees wife at Clarks
Fork. Idaho, Tissue located the "old
man." as ]. S. Lee, Sr., president of
the Burnt Forest Copper and Silver
Mining company. and without Great
ing any suspicion among his neighbors
at Trout Creek. and advising Mrs. Lee
at Calrks Fork, as lawyer, to keep
quiet and not tell anything about it
to anybody. Deputy Sheriff Tissue.
Sheriff Merrill and Deputy Sheriff
Hutchinson came to Thompson and
We're Joined here by Sheriff Bunker and
Under Sheriff Ro.dy, The five Off
GERS dropped upon their quarry una
wares today and captured them with
out mishap of any kind, and, further
than that. secured a large amount of
spurious coins and the tools. chemicals
and all the paraphernalia used in the
counterfeiting operation.
Make Arrests.
The officers arrived in Trout Creek
this morning and at once placed Mrs
j. $. Lee, Sr.. and John Lee under
arrest and searched the premises
Leaving Sheriff Bunker and Under
Sheriff Roddy in charge of the pris-
oners. Deputy Sheriff Fred Tissue.
Sheriff Merrill and Deputy Sheriff
Hutchinson drove out to where Lee.
Sr.. held forth at the Burnt Forest
mine, five miles up big Trout Creek
They came along unseen. as it hap
pened, and raped on his cabin door
before he was aware of their approach.
Tissue was leading and they could hear
the click of lock before there came
the query. Who's there" Tissue re-
piled. We are cold: open up and Wen
come in" When the door opened Lee
stood with six-shooter in his hand.
Tissues face looked familiar to Lee,
and. stepping back, Tissue remarked:
Why. YOU surprised me. Mr.. Lee
Taken off his guard. Lee invited the
officer in and placed his weapon on
a shelf. Sheriff Merrill followed
and in a moment had seized Lees gun
and Tissue had taken Lee in charge
Coin Found.
In Lees pockets were found quanti-
ties of unfinished spurious coins. some
of the unplated spurious gold coins. as
well as those of smaller denomina-
tions. In a room he called his assay
office. and over the door of which was
the legend, Danger, Keep OUT" the
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