Arizona republican., 1913-09-26
Chief of Police, Assisted by
His Officers, Makes q
Roundup Which May Re
suit in Sensational De
velopments
TWO MEN HAVE
POLICE RECORDS
Chain is Completed After
Three Days III Arrest Of
George Dobson, Supposed
to Be the Fence for III
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Unless present Indications fail, Chief
of Police \ J. Moore assisted by Po-
.licemen Grove and Williams yesterday
and the day before succeeded in
Irounding up three Of the most import
ant prisoners taken in many months
by the Phoenix police department.,
when they apprehended Frank Taylor,
William Middleton alias Mcdowell and
! George Dobson. suspected not only of
engaging in the wholesale disposing
of counterfeit twenty dollar gold piec-
es but of having knowledge of an or
/ eanfzpd gang Of manufacturers Of bad
! coin. Taylor and Mcdowell. the lat
/ ter at first giving the name of Middle
ton. were apprehended on Wednesday
and locked up in the city jail, The tri-
angle was completed yesterday when
! Chief Moore and Policeman Williams
found Dobson at his home. 743 Grand
avenue and locked him up with the
others.
! That these men have conspired to
/ flood this section with spurious coins
is not doubted and this belief is further
/ strengthened by the discovery of four
counterfeit twenty dollar gold pieces.
bearing 1904 date Two of these
! coins had been disposed of by Nc
DoweU and TAYLOR. one TO {. NJ. Daniel
and the other to c. ". S;chaeffer. The
other two coins We're unearthed by Nc
/ DoWel after his arrest when he took
the officers to the Commercial stables
and revealed the place where he had
/ hidden them
Before making the arrests. Chief Of
! Police Moore communicated his sUs-
picions that an effort was being made
here to dispose of counterfeit money to
the office of the United States district
attorney and Of the United States mar
: shall. He was authorized to go ahead
and handle the case.
( While Daniel. who first brought the
! matter to the attention of the police.
! was unable to give the names of the
men who had passed the spurious coin
upon him. he announced that he would
1 recognize the men upon sight Ac-
/ cordingly Policeman Barnum was de-
tailed to accompany Daniel in an eff
fort To locate the men. The two sue
/ ceeded in locating the men separately
but could not catch the men together
and accordingly hesitated in making an
arrest But the identity of the men
was discovered by this search and on
! Wednesday Chief of Police Moore de-
| tailed Policeman Grove to locate the
men Grove had arrested Taylor
week or 50 previously for drawing
knife on man in a Washington street
pool hall and was able to quickly iden-
| tify his man From the description
given to Mcdowell he was certain that
/ he had corralIed the two together and
on Wednesday brought both Taylor
and Mcdowell to the police station
Satisfied with the fruits of his lab
ors, as far as they had gone, Chief
Moore then instructed his officers to
! be on the lookout for Dobson. Yester-
DAY Captain Hy Mcdonald notified the
chief that he was certain that Dobson
| had arrived at his home on Grand av-
enue. The chief accompanied bv Of
! ficer Williams made quick trip to the
! DobSOn home and placed DObson under
arrest. The prisoner expressed sur
prise at being taken in custody but
when confronted by Mcdowell and
! Taylor was positively Identified as the
man who had given them a counter
felt twenty dollar gold piece with the
| instructions to turn it into good money
as quickly as possible.
! Mcdowell and TAYLOR said after ho-
| AAso q 'fHt'tl tiifiI lCODSOI ntiU suggested
| to them that the best way to dispose
| Of the bad coins was to visit small
stores on the outskirts and after pur
chasing a small amount Of goods to
| tender the 'phOney" money in pay
| mont. In this way anywhere from SIS
to $3.50 could be realized from each
coin so passed. Neither Mcdowell or
| Taylor would admit that they had acted
| on this suggestion
Pressed to tell how Dobson came to
| give them the money. they stated that
| ne mad invited them to accompany him
to some spot not vet revealed. but sup
| posed TO be south Of town After ar
irving there it is claimed that Dobson
reached into the deep grass and
brought out four spurious coins. These
he pressed upon the two men. one
later was given to Daniel and another
TO Schaeffer The other two were hid
den by Mcdowell in the Commercial
Stables pending an opportune moment
TO dispose of them
When Dobson was arrested Yesterday
a search of his house failed to reveal
the presence of any counterfeit money
However. the police did locate a six
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