Arizona republican., 1912-04-12
Arrests Are Made Follow ing the Discovery That
 Bogus Money is
 Circulated r
OFFICER DID
 SPLENDID WORK
One Coin is Said to Have Been Passed Out by a Prisoner at Tempe
 Stockade

 pending an investigation by United States authorities of their connection with series of fictitious ten and twenty dollar gold pieces recently placed in circulation in this city.
 One of the men has been serving as a guard. or watcher at the Tempe stockade where state prisoners work ing on the bridge across the Salt are hours. The other is not known here.
 The prisoners were arraigned be- fore Judge Johnstone in the after noon and remanded to jail. Later they were turned over to United States Marshal Bush Anderson.
 During the past few weeks several bogus gold pieces have turned up at the banks and the authorities have been quietly working on such clues as they were able to develop. Ex- ceptionally clever work on the part of the officer assigned to the case is responsible for the apprehension of the two men now in custody.
 Considerable detail relative to the arrests, the discovery of the queer, and the possibility of there being a plant in this vicinity is withheld by the officers pending further inves- tigation and possible arrests. but sen sational developments may result in a few days.
 The latest bogus twenty to be drs- covered is alleged 10 have been given by one of the prisoners to a young woman acquaintance who changed the supposed gold piece. It found its way to the National Bank of Arizona where it was promptly repudiated. having neither weight nor ring to commend it to the sharp eyed ex- perts
 Yesterday. it is stated, a ten dollar piece of the same make was nego- tiated at a poker game which Is al- | legged to be running at certain well | known resort. Each of the prisoners attempts to place the onus of getting rid of the bogus money upon the | other. and each expresses great in dignation over his arrest
 A representative of the secret ser- | vice is expected here in a few days. and working in conjunction with the ! local authorities the source of the i mint" is likely to soon come to ! light
 The theory has been advanced that | the plant may be located in the vicin- ] ity of Tempe. and perhaps not very far from the stockade itself. It is said by those who know that there 1 are inmates of that resort 70 whom an operation of this character would be like | %lx 1aTa f-' close utilization with the prisoners there gives added strength to the ! suggestion. in the opinion of those | who look with suspicion in that di-
 rection.
 As yet. however th-"s is no real ! evidence to support this hypothesis l but it is pointed out that the ''un- | fortunates'' working on the bridge are allowed the greatest latitude. Tat
 'or severa; hours each .YeGing tfey
 are permitted to SC ani ccme about the town Or country .,de as :hev see fit, and with a coLss s1..a.s cn the
 outside to shove the queer the man. ufactory might we'll be established
 and maintained within c.tsy reaclN oi
 the stockade without u.Ic1 fear oi
 discovery.
 So far the only spurious coins dis
 covered have been tens and twenties
 and they can be easily detected by
 ''hefting'' or by sounding them foi
 ring Pending the taking over oi
 the case bv the government officers
 no test of the ''phony" pieces ha:
 been made to see of what they art l constructed The outside coating ap. ] pears to be of gold and the dies art
 accurate enough to pass an average
 inspection.