The log cabin Democrat., 1920-12-27
SHERIFF CAPTURES
 Z COUNTERFE|TERS
WHITE COUNTY OFFICER
Loses Christmas Dinner in Successful Search Afoot for Makers of
 Bad Money.

Searcy, Dec 27.-Missing his Christ mas dinner to run down criminals, Sheriff Plant spent most of Christmas day in a search made afoot over al most impossible mountains in an eff fort to catch two men suspected of making counterfeit money And he did not stop until he found his men, Sheriff Plant never does, and as a re- suit of his devotion to duty Philip Schultz and his son, Will, are in the White county jail with Lee Hess, who was arrested Friday by Deputy Jim Shipman at Bald Knob on the same charge.
 Hess has admitted his part in the crime, but the other men are sullen, though it is believed they will con- fess, as a part of the counterfeiting outfit was found at their home, and the elder man was identified as hav- Several dozen pieces of the bogus coin Several dozen pieces of theb ogus coin are in Sheriff Plants possession.
 Friday afternoon the three men spent halves and nickels rather freely at Bald Knob. A merchant suspect ing that the coins were not good, showed some of them to Deputy Ship man, who caught the Hess boy be- fore he got out of town.
 Shipman then telephoned Sheriff Plant, who left early Christmas morn ing, going from there to Russell, near the home of the Schultzs.
 The elder Schultz was hanging around the station when Sheriff Plant, with Deputies Marion Howell of Scar cy and Jim Shipman of Bald Knob got off the train. but eluded them and left for him home, which is on top of Buz- zards Roost Mountain, and inacces- sible to any vehicle or even horses. The officers were carried within few miles of the house. being forced to make the balance of the journey afoot,
 The Schultz boy was doing sentinel duty a short distance from the house when the officers arrived, but they rushed the house before he could give the alarm and caught the elder Schultz in the act of destroying the parapher- naia used for his get-rich-quick schem
 Part of the outfit had already been thrown over the steep cliff near the house, but officers secured the ladle, rudely made from a frying pan, used for pouring the mixture into molds, a glass jar of plaster paris for mak- ing molds, and quantity of beavit, a compound which, mixed properly with ground glass and other things used for the manufacture of counterfeit coins.
 The father and son weer arrested and brought to Russell
 The parties arrested have bad rec ords behind them, officers say. Will Schultz and his younger brother, Gus, were arrested several years ago on a charge of having murdered little Jo- anna Hess of North Little Rock, whose badly mutilated body was found in the woods near her home. On ac- count of insufficient evidence they were not convicted.
 The Hess boys father served sen tencc in the federal penitentiary for counterfeitng. Sheriff Plant, then constable at Bradford, went with the federal officers to arrest him more than 10 years ago.
 This will probably be the last arrest of importance that will be made by Sheriff Tatum Plant, as his term of office closes January 1, and it com pletes four years of varied experiences. as it was about the only crime in the whole list on the books for which he has not already made an arrest. Mr. Plant is considered by many the best officer White county has ever had, and and it is doubtful if there is man anywhere who is more untiring in his efforts to enforce the laws