Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-01-30


in court prison awaiting a hear
ing before a Federal Judge. IN
oval is Government expert study
ing a specimen of the product of a
clever bank note raiser.
were detected. Really relatively few Of
hem came into our hands
We took several of the bills to the paper
ILL In Dalton.
They declared the paper to be genuine!
We looked back over the production
records and checked them against con
sumption. The two figures balanced! In
other words the United States Mint had
used all that had been produced. There
seemed to be nothing to do but watch the
factory. For six months we hung around
and nothing happened.
Finally one afternoon after he had re-
tired from the factory we received a tele.
gram to the effect that an employee had
left for New York on a train leaving Dial.
ton in the morning. We had an ample
description of the man and his name. He
was said to be carrying a package-a mys-
FERROUS package. We spotted him in
Grand Central Station and followed him to
the Harvard Club.
He was dressed in his working clothes,
An hour or two later he came out of the
club and took taxicab to a haberdashers
shop. There he bought dress shirt. Here
was a new one. Here was something
mighty mysterious. We stuck to him as
though the future depended upon it. He
remained inside the club where he at.
tended a class dinner, and at midnight
dashed back to Grand Central, where he
took train back to Dalton.
We followed him to Dalton and there
found that he was merely young Harvard
man who had rushed to New York to at.
tend that dinner and had taken his dress
clothes in package instead of a bag. And
that left us high and dry again.
personally skipped arouad the country
taking in all the principal cities between
New York and San Francisco. Every.
where I collected the bogus notes. We
called meetings Of merchants and small
shopkeepers. Later on we calculated that
we had enlisted the cooperation of 100000
business men. They all came into contact,
directly or indirectly, with the counterfeit
notes, but we never caught up with the
distributor.
Flow of Notes Stopped
After Many Arrests Were Made
Then the notes seemed to disappear. At
least the flow diminished. There was
nothing to do but to wait for the trail to
develop again. We had accounted for all
the known counterfeiters. We arrested
several suspects and oldtimers. They all
proved their innocence We went over to
England and France to learn something
and learned nothing that would help u.s.
In month or so Wilken, SO we learned
later, decided it was time to go to work
again. He did. He set up a studio in West
Twenty-third street, New York city, and
began to turn out ten dollar bills that
passed the tellers of some of the most i'm.
portant banks In America. They even
passed the scrutiny Of experts in the Treas.
ury Department. have samples of them
here. They are magnificent frauds. l have
never seen finer engraving.
And to think he learned this engraving
in public library!
This time we followed the trail straight
to California. The coast was Uttered with
the bogus stuff. 1t didn't seem possible
that one man could have done all this, but
! assure you one did. 1t became so fragrant
that Washington began to grow sarcastic
1t looked as though our designations would
be called for. But they knew of no one
who could do more than we had.
All we could do was to assure the Treas.
ury Department that we were certain to
land such bold one sooner or later, They
Informed US that sooner or later the man
would die and that we might take what