The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-26

an now accompanied us upstairs and
led us to a door that was locked
The key was turned from the inside,
An entrance was demanded. but there
was no response. Dehberating a few
moments, the officers rushed against
the door and burst il open. We found
a young man in the room. There was
er's ink, n long table, couple of
| chairs and stove. But there was not
scrap of paper in sight, nor anything
to show that counterfeiting was being
carried on. There was plenty of sus-
plcion, but we were unable to find eVl"
dence to warrant conviction. One
of the detectives chanced TO put his
hand on the stove. Il was hot. On
looking inside we discovered that a
recently burned. A systematic search
of the premises was now began. Every
nook and corner of the house was eX-
amined. We tore up the carpet and
pried up the weak places in the floor,
Every piece of furniture and every rag
of clothes was searched. The detec
tives crawled under the roof and on
top of it, They looked down the chin.
neys. Nothing of an incriminating ma
ture was found
The old man wouldn't t talk. He shut
HIS ulOulu llpntlN anu SuoOb Hle uCdu
to every question asked, and the
young man was dumb as an oyster,
While the woman did not appear TO be
anxious to conceal anything from us,
she said she was quite unable TO rem
der any further assistance. We were
about to give up in despair and leave
the house when one of the detectives,
more suspicious and hopeful than any
of the others, remarked: 'There, is
Il. -, "a of trNr
hanging lamp
top Here to our great relief we
found several thousand dollars in
counterfeit $40 bills They were newly
printed. The old man now broke down
and the woman began to cry, She said
she had been working under orders
from her father, but knew little of
what was going on. She was sure that
counterfeit money was being made
there. but she did not know what was
her lover was mixed up in the scheme.
She was between the devil and the
deep sea and was at loss what
course to take, but had finally conclud-
ed TO become an lnformer.
| was satisfied / had obtained the
bottom facts so far as the woman was
concerned and that Sheldon, who was
expected there that evening, would
bring tho back OF the counterfeit The
father and brother had been doing the
printing. Ii the old man now told me
the truth, they had n6ver been engaged
in selling or passing the bogus stuff
They were not trusted with both of the
counterfeit $40 plates at the same
time, When the face Of the note was
finished the plate for printing the back
was brought and the face plate taken
away. Sheldon was the man that
brought the plates and took away tho
counterfeits. The young woman had
assisted in these operations to a certain
extent. but she had been doing this un-
der pressure She had now informed
the officers and chanced the result,
The door bell was rung promptly at
8 o'clock and Sheldon was admitted.
When he was confronted with tho sit.
uation he wilted and staggered to
seat His every faculty seemed par
alyzed with blank despair. The wom-
an threw her arms about KIM and plead.
ed with him to tell the trl+h He now
became greatly excited and declared in
a trembling voice that he would make
a clean breast Of the whole affair and
take what was coming to him. / lis.