Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-07
BREAKING UPoF GANG OF BOGUS
MONEY MAKERS LEADS TO
RECOVERY OF BILLS. s.
MARKS CLOSING CHAPTER
OF COUNTERFEIT CONSPIRACY
Gang Rounded Up by Secret Service
Mon After Search Which Extended
Portion Of Money Made 400 Miles
North Of Vancouver.
Especial Correspondence. ]

Washington, Nov. 7-Advices re-
ceived by the United States secret
service from Chicago tell of the digging
up Of nearly $500 in counterfeit SO
notes on a small island in Jackson
Bark This recovery of bogus currency
marks one Of the closing chapters Of
the worst counterfeiting conspiracy
with which the secret service has had
10 contend for years
The money found at Chicago was
aug up under direction Of Operative
Porter and as the result OF admissions
made by Albert Leon alias Sanders, a
clever criminal. who was arrested In
New York Oct. 9, just as he was buy ing
ticket for South America Leon and
his confederates, Rudolph Swanson
and Fred Marneek, all Russians, are
now held in arrest at Chicago, awaiting
trial
1t was stated today by Assistant
chief Moran of the secret service that
the arrests of these three men have
doubtless rounded up all those involved
in the conspiracy. 1t was one of re-
markable scope and the trail Of il led
secret service men all the way from
San Francisco and other California
cities TO New York and as far north as
Nootka Island. 400 miles north of Van
conver, British Columbia.
Make Conviction Certain.
The digging up of the counterfeits at
Chicago practically cinches the case
against Leon and his confederates.
Leon has been responsible for no less
than eleven dangerous counterfeits
which have been widely circulated in
this country in recent months. The
first appeared in Los Angeles in the
spring Of 1910. They were counterfeit
bank notes of the First National Bank
of Orange, California, the Riverside
California, National Bank and the First
National Bank Of Yuma. Ariz. They
were extensively circulated in Los An
geles at the time. Then in September
1910. San Francisco was plastere6 with
counterfeit tens on the Pasadena Ma
tional Bank and the First National of
Williamsport. Next to appear was a
counterfeit on the FL Centre National
Bank, California institution. These
circulated extensively in Seattle. These
FL Centre notes and notes on the First
National OF Portland, Ore, were passed
in New York the latter part of last
october and November last year. The
counterfeits were all clever ones and
made by the same person or persons.
Nothing more was heard until the
is. Of September. this year. when
couIterfeits were passed at Salt Lake
City. Denver and later at Chicago.
They included q counterfeit silver GER
tifcate. and counterfeits on the Anglo
and London-Faris National Bank of
San Francisco. the Illinois National Of
Springfield and the Blair county Ma
,iona! Bank of Tyrone. Pa.
Gang Rounded Up.
All the while secret service men were
working had on the ca Sc. September IA
Rudolph Swanson was arrested in Chi
cago rad Sept. 80. Fred Marneck was
arrested there for passing counterfeit
notes. Marneek had passed them in
Chicago and Milwaukee. AS the result
% these arrests. 1t was learned that
Leon alias Sanders was the maker OF
the notes and every effort was made
10 capture him. The trail led to New
| York. Seeing it was getting hot for
him, Leon planned TO escape from this
country to South America. abandoning
his plant here, and was nabbed just in
| tine to prevent his going.
| Leon has disclosed the hiding place
| Of the plates and it is expected they
will be recovered along with othe,
paraphernalia. In the lot of counter
| feits, were notes of each variety that
has been passed except those on the
Pasadena bank
| Plant on Island.
| Leon and his coufederates in the
F., course of their operations went &c
| Eootka Island. where they took VI
lard ard built a shack. 1t was there
! the last batch Of counterfe,ts was
made Secret service men followed
them to this remote point and logged
| their trail later when they set out fol
the United states. The cleverness o.
the operations may be judge from thu
!, fact that in spite Of all the passing OF
| money on the Pacific coast. it was i'm
possible to get a description along the
coast of the persons who passed the
| counterfeits. Leon himself passed little
tof 1t, leaving most OF this work to his
confederates.
| The three arrested men have no rec
ords of crime in this country. Wha,
their records were in their own countr;
! is not known
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