The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-06-16
TICKET SELLER INFORMS OFFICER
Leads Patrolman to Person Who I'm
loaded "Queer" Money on Him at
Ball Park detectives Make Raid.

efforts of one of the members to pass
two counterfeit half-dollar pieces on
a boy who was selling tickets at the
a band of counterfeiters, whose coins,
dollar and half-dollar pieces, have
been in circulation since March, were
arrested Sunday. Patrolman lie
barth, of the police department, ar
rested Carl P. Mohon, telegraph op-
orator, at the baseball park as the
first suspect. Then, through him,
Morris Ralston, his partner, was
caught in the act of working on coins,
| and Cora st. Clair, according to the
name she gave the police. who says
! she is Ralstons wife, was arrested
| also. A young woman who was with
Mohon, and whom secret service oper-
| atives believe to be implicated, was
| Mohon's companion at the baseball
grounds, but made her escape.
Molds, files, electro-plating appara-
| tus and the metal for making the
coins were found in the rooms occu-
pied by the counterfeiters in lodging
house on Ninth avenue, near Union
| street. by Operative-inCharge Thomas
! B. Foster, of this federal district, and
Special Agent William Glover. After
| the arrest of Mohon, the case was
turned over to the United States Sc
cret service officers for further inves-
| tigation, and it was through those Of
| ficers that R~lston and the woman
who says she is his wife were arrested.
| DaSS Rad Coin nj Rnn VDo-Ix
| Mohon and young woman, whose
name had not yet been obtained, visit
ed the baseball game Sunday after
| noon. Jack Arquette, of $50 Denny
way, had purchased several dollars
worth of tickets at the box office and
was selling them at small premium
to those who did not wish to wait in
line to get their tickets. 1t was of him
that Mohon bought his tickets giving
him two spurious half dollars and two
genuine dimes. The dollar was for the
two tickets and the other money was
the premium of the scalper
| The boy soon discovered that the
halves We're bad when he passed them
out in change a few minutes later. He
| reported to Patrolman Ziebarth that
he had been the victim of shower of
! the queer" The officer accompanied
the boy into the grandstand. There he
had little difficulty in locating Mohon
and the young woman with him.
Where did you get those half dol
lar pieces you put up for your tick
ets?' the officer asked.
81 got them in change, I think, on
Pike street." glibly answered the ac-
cused man.
| While answering Mohon tried to slip
something into the lap of the young
woman at his side. She did not I'M
derstand what he was trying to do and
her actions betrayed him. The officer
took his hand and found he had four
more of the half dollars Ziebarth
arrested him, but neglected to take
the young woman into custody for in
vestigation. She was left seated in the
grandstand while Mohon was led out
and taken on the street car to police
headquarters.
Desk Sergeant Meyer Peyser imme-
diately notified Operative Thomas B.
| Foster and he, with Special Agent
| Glover, went at once to police head
| quarters. Except that he had been a
| telegraph operator at Everett and that
he had been here but a few months
| and that he had secured the half doll
| lars in change on Pike street he would
say nothing about himself Failing to
secure anything more from him in the
way of information Operative Foster
| went to the box containing the effects
| of Mohon taken from his pockets
when he was searched previous to be-
| ing locked up. There he found a re-
ceipt for room rent from a man who
conducts a lodging house on Ninth
avenue near Union street.
| Den Is Discovered.
The housekeeping apartment Mohon
had occupied was found and in it evil
dence that at a glance showed it to be
the den of counterfeiting band,
Metal was spilled ABOUT and the pot
for heating it was on the stove. In a
pan in the pantry were fourteen dol
| lar pieces not yet plated and seven
| half-dollar pieces that had not been
put through the electro-plating pro-
cess. Tie officers did not disturb the
room, but waited.
They had been there but a short
| time when a telephone message was
| received at the house from a young
| woman believed to have been the one
! with whom Mohon mad been at the
baseball game.
Tell the people in two that Carl
is pinched," was the message intended
| for the people who we're about to be
arrested, but who did not get the
| message because it was intercepted by
| the secret service men.
Soon after that message was receiv-
ed woman who appeared was aues-
| toned. She stated that she was the
wife of Morris Ralston, a barber from
| Everett, who was living in one of the
rooms of the housekeeping apartment
that was also the residence of Mohon.
the man arrested at the baseball park.
Foster Grabs RaIston.
The woman was not allowed to go