POSTMASTER IN NEED; MADE MONEY HIMSELF
Item
- Title
- POSTMASTER IN NEED; MADE MONEY HIMSELF
- Source
- The Washington Times
- Date
- 1904-03-04
- page
- 4
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026749/1904-03-04/ed-1/?sp=4&q=counterfeiting&r=0.387,0.377,0.505,0.301,0
- Crime
- Counterfeiting
- Subject
- scheme, bank notes
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Law enforcement involved
- Secret Service
- Stage of the Legal System
- Arrest
- Location
- Out-of-state, AL
- Length of story
- 259
- Description
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POSTMASTER IN NEED; MADE MONEY HIMSELF
Now Under Arrest for Alleged Counterfeiting—Tried Green Goods Games First.
Not the Presidential bee out the bee for making money without work has brought Postmaster John Roberson of McClung Ala to grief and disgrace according to dispatches that reached Chief Wllkle of the Secret Service Bureau this moijrting First Roberson Is said to have sought the road to riches along the green goods route but failed to reach his destination Thon he under took a counterfeiting scheme it Is charged and has again fallen short of his expectations Roherson has been running the post office and a general store In McClung About a year ago he received a green goods circular from New York It was couched in language that would have done credit to a Slavonic diplomat and looked is said to have borrowed from a bank and Invested It In green roods finding too late that he was 500 out of pocket The separation from the money ac to Mr Wilkics dispatches led Roberson to devise a counterfeitirg scheme In order to recoup his losses He is said to have persuaded hl brother George and a friend to go In with him The friend raising 2 notes to and 20s It is to the amount of or Operative McAdams of the Secret Ser force w set to work on the case when the bogus bills began to appear and the result was the arrest of Rober son and his brother The friend will be held as a witness for the Govern
