Arizona republican., 1913-09-28
MONEy-MAK|NC
HOLDS DOBSON
Must Answer to Federal
Court for Acting as Dis
tributor Of Spurious Gold
Pieces-Taylor and Mid
dleton Discharged

| Following the hearing before Unit
! cd States Commissioner tombstone
| yesterday, Of the counterfeiting cases
| George Dobson was held to the fed
| eral grand jury in the sum of $1,000
and Jesse Middleton and Frank Tay-
! Ion were discharged The cases
against them were really dropped be
! fore the beginning of the hearing and
| they were made Witnesses for the
| government The line of the defense
was not disclosed at the hearing
Middleton and Taylor said that they
| had known Dobscn or Slim" for
some time and that a few nights
ago he talked with them about money
matters. He finally told them that
he was about to put $500 into their
hands and they began to get inter
ested. Later they met him and as
he said that the conversation was
enc that could not be very We'll car
Tied on in q crowd or in the vicinity
of walls which are said to have ears,
they went out in the direction of
live Points where Dobson gave them
four tWenty-dOllar gold pieces They
were to be disposed of and the
profits We're to be 'cut four ways"
Middleton and TAYLOR were to have
half the other half to go to Dobson
who would divide it with an unknown
party. II was said by him that the
money had not been coined in PhOe-
nix and Middleton and Taylor were
LED to believe that the secret mint
was somewhere without the state
Each of the men took two of the
pieces and started down town. They
stepped under an arc light and there
scratched one of the pieces. rubbing
tie plating off and disclosing a
white metal. Dobson had told them
that they could get rid of the money
AZ small stores in the outskirts Of
Phoenix by making small purchases.
Eut he warned them not to try to
shove the money at any of the sa-
looms. He minated that if they
made a good showing here he would
pay their transportation to Fresno,
Cal, where the grain was white for
the counterfeiter's sickle
There was no evidence that Middle
ton and Taylor had tried to pass the
money on the contrary there was
plenty Of evidence that wherever they
showed it they advertised it as
spurious. Among other places where
they called with it was at BaIze's Big
Curio store. They wanted to sell it
as curiOs The proprietor told them
that everything he kept was genuine
and warned them of the danger of
having the stuff III their possession
II the course of the next night they
were at the Star Lodging House,
where they showed the money to an
employe who advised them to separ-
ate from it as soon as possible. He
said that not long ago he had been
on the carpet with a bogus half
dollar in his possession and he had
the devils own time getting out Of
it, What would have happened to
him if he had had four twenty-doIlar
gold pieces, he hated to think Of
Messrs. Middleton and Taylor by
this time imagined that they could
feel the false disks burning holes in
their pockets. They considered put
ting up job on Dobson that looked
like blackmaiI. but nothing came of
it. for before the plot could be carried
out one of the host of friends to
whom they had showed the money
told the police about it and their ar
Test followed.