Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-01-26
COUNTERFEiTING
SCHEME BELIEVED
UNEARTHED HERE
Secret Service Men Arrest G.,
w. Carr Taxi Driver, Who
duplicates Two Men and
Woman as "Higher Ups"

WOMAN DIS TllSll6I ups
In the arrest of G. W. Carr, a taxicab
driver of S92 Pulliam street. Wednes-
day, city police and United States secret
service men believe they have unearthed
a clever counterfeiting scheme by which
! fake five-dollar bills were to be made
from dies innocently prepared by the
! Wrigley Engraving company, Of 80 IL
Alabama street.
Carr was arrested by City Policeman
o. r. Jones and Captain Wright, of the
secret service, at the Wrigley plant,
whittier he was summoned by officials
| of the company, who had become sus-
picious of him and tipped off the police.
They charge that for the past six
months he has been bringing designs
to them at weekly intervals from which
they made dies and delivered them to
him. Saving the drawings, they discov-
cred only the other day that when pieced
together they were the exact reproduc-
ton of a fve-dollar bill and that, unw4t-
tingly, the company had been made the
instrument of counterfeiters. Secret
service officials were at once informed
of the plot.
While the company kept the drawings,
the completed dies were delivered to the
customer and are now being sought Wig
are in the possession of two men and
woman who, Carr charges, employed
him to take the designs to the Wrigley
company.
Carr, held at police station until a
federal warrant is sworn out for him,
says that he met one of the men whose
name was either Hielsman or Hishtman,
six months ago, when the man hired his
taxicab for an evening. He was a good
pTnnlOVpd
time after time, every now and then
sending him to the wrigley company
with designs.
Carr says the first design he took was
a big strip, lettered Good for IS IN
! Christmas Trade" Then he says he
took a design showing the landing of
the Pilgrims, which is the picture on all
fve-dollar bills; and this was followed
by a design of numbers, the serial num-
bers on the bill, and so on until, little
by little, the man for whom he says
he acted had completed his alleged coun-
terfeit-
The last time Carr called at the com
pany's office he gave the name OF H. c.
Glover. Now he says Hielsman, or
Hightman. told him, to assume that
name and to send the plates to him at
! Newman. Carr says he did this.
He claims he does not know where the
man is or where the dies are, and had
no idea what was afoot when he re-
ceived a telephone message from the
| Wrigley Engraving company Wednesday
summoning him to the office, where he
walked into the arms Of policeman.
WOMAN IN CASE.
| A woman whom he characterized as
large, reddish blonde" well dressed
and good looking, and soft spoken, fig
ured extensively in the various nego-
tiations for the counterfeit designs, ac-
cording to Norman Wrigiey, of the
wrigley Engraving company, who gave
additional details of the scheme.
This woman never gave her name; at
least no one could recall that she did.
She simply described herself as being
the mother of II. c. Glover, the latter
being the name, Mr.. Wrigley said, that
Carr gave later.
This woman came to us last Octo-
ber," Mr.. Wrigley said. land asked us if
I we could make a drawing of the five
fves on a five-dollar bill. She wanted
the figures duplicated and a separate
design for each. We told her we
couldn't accept the order on account of
kUncle Sam. She said she wanted the
design for powder box.
1.-The woman didn't return soon, but
in November man named Hillsman, or
Kightman, called on us. He was about
twenty-five years old, thin, well dressed
and well supplied with money. HeNcar-
ried a roll containing bills from 81 up,
and he was always wanting to set US up
to something. He offered TO pay fancy
prices for our work. I
The job he gave us was an engraving
of the Pilgrims Landing. l didn't know,
until Captain Wright told me, that this
design appears on five-dollar bills. He
gave US a postcard with this design on
| it and told us to make the plate from
| it. We accepted the order.
| About a week later, the woman re-
| turned. She gave US an order for a
design, 1.-The United States of America
Good for Five Dollars in Trade
"She said that this design was for II.
| C. Glover, of Newman, her son. We mis-
understood her directions, and, as it was
a C. o. D. order, we sent it to Mr.. Glover.
| He. it appeared, is a well-to-do real
estate agent of Newman and of course |
knew nothing about the design. He re-
turned it, We didn't know what to do
especially as the woman had promised
| to return about December Is, for furth |
er information about the design. A few
days later however, she did call. She |
was very much flustered about our hav- |
! ing~sent the thing to Newman.
| Hell never get it, she said. He
lives on a r. F. d route This call, !
by the way, was just before the real
Mr.. Glover returned the design. The
woman didn't return. but 1 saw her
two weeks later driving in an automo-
/ bile with HillSman. This was the first |
time that 1 had connected the. two IN
any way.
"A few days later Carr came in and
| said that he was II. c. Glover. He paid
/ for the design and plates. Not long aft
erwards he gave us another order, but
| we were suspicious by now and turned
/ it over to the secret service"
/ GsTI n - c.