The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-04-05
SPURIOUS COINS
AREF0UND; ONE
MAN ARRESTED
Companion of Suspect Out
sprints Two Pursuing De-
tectives and Makes His
Escape.
INVOICE FOR METALS
DISCOVERED IN COAT
Counterfeits Are of Half Dol.
lars; Ring Nearly True and
Look Genuine at
First Glance.

Andrew Poters, An alleged counter.
feiter, is in the city jail and 500 in
counterfeit half fdollars is locked in the
evidence room Mt police headquarters
as the result of call made at No. 9
Poverty row." Third West, between
North Temple and First North streets,
yesterday morning by Detectives w. C.
Zeese and Herbert Leichter.
A second man made his escape after
both had been pursued through back
alleys and over fences. His pace was
quickened by shots from the reyolvers
OF the detectives, but the officers were
handicapped by the presence of many
children in the neighborhood, and for
fear of hitting some one Of them they
kept firing at the fleeing man 8 feet.
Poters fell exhausted in an alley
near Fourth West street and Detective
Leichter regained his breath while sit.
ting on the PROSTATE man, Detective
Zeese in the meantime continuing the
pursuit of the second man to Fourth
West street. where it was taken up by
S. M. Barlow, former chief of police.
The man proved to be both sprinter
and long distance runner, however, and
made good his escape.
Invoices Are Discovered.
Two invoices from the Great West
ern Smelling & Refining company of
San Francisco showed where the al
legged counterfeiters had paid $40 for
the metal out of which 500 had been
made. The invoices listed eleven bars
of tin, three of antimony and three of
antimony and nickle babbit. The in
voices were found in a coat dropped
by the man who escaped. They were
dated February 27, 1914, Poters said
that the men both came here recently
from San Francisco, where he had
worked in the kitchen of the Colonial
hotel
Word of the catch was telegraphed
yesterday to R. *. Goddard, United
States secret service agent at Denver.
lic ahoNClCu WIN IbS
Agent Bratton would be III Salt Lake
some time today.
Upon examination the CONS proved to
be very good limitations. Though they
seem u trihe light, they ring almost
true and look genuine when not closely
inspected
Beginning of Chase.
The detectives had entered a shack in
search OF certain person for whom
they had searched THROUGH every other
Leicbter discovered evidence of coun-
terfeiting operations. In the same in
stant he realized that two men, who
had met him in the hallway had hur
ried out. Dashine out OF the house he
shouted "counterfeiters to Detective
Zeese and the officers gave chase. The
two men were out of the court and run
ming north ON Third West street with
a long start, Only the quick action of
stopping TO make a full examination OF
tho contents Of the shack prevented the
escape of both men.
"We were shown some counterfeit
coins several days ago by banker, "
said Detective Leichter last night.
50 When I saw tho layout in the room
lost interest in the case that we were
NUTkluH Ou, tAal q eliohc Va
luck had probably revealed to us the
source of the spurious coins. From then
on it was a question Of overcoming the
lead of the men who left the house be-
fore we had reason to suspect that we
would want them, If We could have
had time to call for help and had the
place surrounded. it might have been a
little better, and we did the best we
could. ~
May Have Been Hit.
Detective Geese was of tho opinion
last night that one Of the bullets which |
went over a fence took effect in the
mans leg, though no trail of blood
could be found. The detective said that |
the man fiuched and dragged his leg |
as if hit, but the officers gun was
empty and his wind was spent. He re-
joined Detective Leichter and the two
with their one prisoner went back and |
made thorough search of the house.
Besides the apparatus for making, |
plating and polishing the coins, 1400 |
5O.cent pieces were found. OF these, |
1900 were ready for circulation. They |
were duplicates of regular half dollars
made in plaster of paris molds, the i'm
pressions in the plaster being taken
from regular coin: Some. Of the coins
were found in IN electro plating bath.
Because of meeting the two men in
the hallway Of the house before his
suspicious had been aroused, Detective
fCoDtjnued On Para EfchkN