Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-26
Miami, Jacksonville and Ma
con Make Arrests in Plot
to Circulate Cash.
WASHINGTON DETECTIVE
PRAISED FOR GOOD WORK
Counterfeit SCHOLAR Notes Were
Loot in Robbery of Alleged
Rum Runner.

| Arrest of two men here in May by
Headquarters Detective Frank Alligood
and work of the United States Secret
Service have uncovered a long trail Of
counterfeit $50 notes which led back
| to the hold-up of alleged whisky run
| ners at Miami, who were robbed of the
| spurious notes, and have resulted in
| further arrests in Miami, Jacksonville
and Macon.
The latest development was the ar
rest yesterday of w. M Bolton of
Goulds, Fla, at Macon, Ga, where to-
day he was under 5000 bond for the
Federal grand jury after his plea of
guilty before United States commits
sioner on a charge of passing two
! worthless $50 bills. He testified at
Macon that man in a Miami lunch
| stand gave him the bad money to buv
liquor and that he came to Macon to
| spend it.
Secret service officials here say the
money is part of the same lot of
counterfeit $50 notes which were printed
| OIL plate used by L. M. Renna of
Jacksonville, who is now serving term
! at Atlanta for counterfeiting. The
plate never has been found.
Recognizes Fugitive.
The arrests here last month started
When Alligood recognized on a street
| car and identified Gather w. Bailiss.
q former policeman, who was wanted
for jumping bond in Knoxville, Tenn.
Ailigood took him and his companion
Harry Lee Brooks, to police headuuar-
terS. where later they were identified
by victims in Washington and Alex
andria as the passers of counterfeit
money. They pleaded guilty at Alex
andria and were sentenced to five years
each Tor possessing and passing coun-
terfeit money.
A third person in this vicinity appre-
hended for possessing and passing the
| same kind of bills was Hugh Gibson,
arrested at Cherrydale, who pleaded
guilty, and has been sentenced at the
Alexandria Court to three years.
The scene shifted to Florida, where,
on May 81, Miami police arrested Fred
Bressler for shooting man. searched
him, and found three more of the spu-
rious $50 notes In his cap, He was
named by Brooks and Gibson here
as confederate.
Miami Makes Arrests.
Miami police at the request of the
Secret Service here arrested Robert T.
Hill and Helen Bryant on a charge of
possession similar spurious $50 notes.
This month they arrested Paul Jones
and Charles Leonard Austin, on the
same charge.
Jack Fields Of Jacksonville, arrested
and placed in Jail at Jacksonville, was
said by secret service officials here
to be the alleged whisky runner who
was robbed of the lot of $50 bills.
In the hold-up. which took place at
Miami, according to secret service rec
ords, one of the consiprators was
brother OF one of the men of the party
held up. Fields, who is said by the
secret service to have been robbed of
the spurious money, was said to have
had on his person total of $l,750.
While the secret service is proud of
its activity in rounding up the num-
Der OF persons passing the same kind
OF spurious money they today paid
tribute to the clever work of Detective
Alligood, whose good work in picking
up the first man here in Washington
opened the way to further develop
ments.