Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-21
BOGUS MONEY
GROWN SCARCE
Secret Service Sleuths Ever
Busy Watching Counterfeiter.

/ WASHINGTON, Jan. 21-Whcn you
walk into YOUR bank, draw check get
your money and put it in your wallet
and 90 through the transaction With the
usual ease Of gr Gerry purchase-dJ you
know the men on Uncle Sans payroll
who place your money operations above
suspicion?
! william Herman Moran. chief United
States Secret Service, is your answer
There may be some other answers, iu-
/ GLIDING William J. Burns, and q few
others. But for bringing home the ba-
con as an annual habit and delivering
the goods to the entire satisfaction Of
your Uncle Samuel the man who is
| there, and with bells on, is Moran.
! Moran bagged 80 forGers OF checks
during the past year. When he wasn't
/ doing that he was Investigating 800
forged check cases. 1850 altered or
/ forged Liberty bond cases and 80 al
tered and stolen war savings stamp cases.
His annual batting average was further
fattered by the detection Of 3Zt sEifty
criminals, guilty Of raising banknotes
/ from lower to higher denominations
Many Of them are thinking 10 over now
in Federal Dcaitentiarles, or are await
/ ing trial.
/ KNOWS CROOKS
/ TRICKS.
Commentators get away with nothing
when Moran hits the tral He knows
/ all the kinks that counterfeiters adopt
( to turn out spurious currency. Once he
gets q clew he's quick on the tracks Of
/ the courterfeiter and his conspirators, IL
he has them.
/ Moran looked back on 1921 as one Of
/ his busiest years He captured or seized
/ S10G993 in counterfeit notes. III counter
/ felt note plates, fourteen engraved dies
land forty-eight sets OF molds for coin
lcounterfeitirg
, Moran and his skilled rtar, engineered
/ by the popular Joe" Murphy, former
/ secret service chief at the White House
also broke UP hundreds of bands Of
/ criminals engaged in counterfeitiug Gov
I crument revenue stamps.
/ Altogether niuetv-siX persons guilty Of
counterfciting revenue-strjp stamps re-
quired on bottled in bond bootleg
whisky fell into the secret service net
/ BUSINESS THRIVES
ABROAD
/ Activity OF the secret service has prac-
/ ticauy broken up counterfeiting OF
| United States currency upon any serious
scale and also has put an end 10 prolific
methods in vogue the early part Of last
wear among bootlccgers of couuterfcltiu2
the Government stamps and placing them
upon alleged bonded whisky.
/ Morans staff ran down twentv-cjght
new counterfeit note issues during the
year. Most Of them Moran SAYS. were
crude limitations and were readily de-
tectad Many Of the specimens were re-
ccived in renittances from European
countries.
/ This discovery showed that the coun-
/ terfeiGng Of United States currency and
other government securities is more or
! less prevalent abroad. But the aid OF
foreign governments has been given to-
ward stamping out the practice and as
sistiug in q roundup Of the criminals
/ NIorans record shows that in altered
and forged bond cases S7J0090 i'm stolen
or forged bonds we're recovered by the
agents of the United Sjaas Secret Service
and returned to the Government or 70
banks in different sections Of the United
States.