BROTHERS ARRESTED AS COUNTERFEITERS
Item
- Title
- BROTHERS ARRESTED AS COUNTERFEITERS
- Source
- The Washington Times
- Date
- 1903-04-11
- page
- 8
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026749/1903-04-11/ed-1/?sp=8&q=counterfeiting&r=0.269,0.444,0.511,0.305,0
- Crime
- Counterfeiting
- Subject
- mill, coins, molds, crucibles, furnace
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offenders
- Law enforcement involved
- Secret Service
- Stage of the Legal System
- Arrest
- Location
- Out-of-state, CA
- Length of story
- 184
- Description
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BROTHERS ARRESTED AS COUNTERFEITERS
Their Entire Outfit and Some Coins Captured by Officers.
Secret Service officers at San Francisco have broken up a remarkable counterfeiting mill and captured the operators—three brothers, John, James, and George Cummings of Elmhurst, Cal. Silver dollars manufactured by the brothers had been circulated in various parts of California. It is not believed that the men had confederates.
The brothers were located Thursday at Stockton, where it was found they had been passing some of their spurious coin. All three were arrested. Papers on the person of one the brothers showed their home to be at Elmhurst. Officers were at once sent to the house.
For some time the officers were unable to locate anything about the premises that looked irregular. They then ripped up the carpets in the parlor and thus disclosed a secret trap door leading into a cellar. A complete paraphernalia for counterfeiting was found, including twenty-five or thirty plaster of paris molds, metal, crucibles, and a furnace, and also nearly 200 finished silver dollars.
The brothers circulated their own coin, riding over the State on bicycles.
