CAPTURE ALLEGED BADGER GAME HEAD
Item
- Title
- CAPTURE ALLEGED BADGER GAME HEAD
- Source
- The Washington Times
- Date
- 1922-10-08
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026749/1922-10-08/ed-1/?sp=1&q=counterfeiting&r=0.072,0.515,0.57,0.34,0
- Crime
- Counterfeiting
- Subject
- war savings stamps, conspiracy
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Law enforcement involved
- Police
- Stage of the Legal System
- Arrest
- Location
- Out-of-state, NJ
- Length of story
- 187
- Description
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CAPTURE ALLEGED BADGER GAME HEAD
Police Assert That William Butler Was Principal in Cairo Affair.
William Butler, said by the police to be the master-mind of the conspiracy which resulted in the "badger game" extortion of $1,750 in cash and a diamond ring valued at approximately $250 from George V. Whittle, of Seattle. Wash., was arrested In Baltimore yesterday and will probably have to face charges of counterfeiting of War Savings Stamps. It is said that Butler counterfeited a number of War Savings Stamps when he lived in Newark. N. J. Butler was turned over by the authorities of the Monumental City to Detective Sergeants Sweeney. Wildron, and Murphy, of the Central Office. Questioned by Inspector Clifford L. Grant, chief of detectives, Butler refused to make any statement that in any way would incriminate him. The police say Butler is a notorious "badger game" operator, and they expect J. Franklin Austin, his wife, Florence, and John M. Brown, of Philadelphia, who are the principals in the badger game pulled off at the Cairo Hotel, to give damaging testimony against Butler when he Is booked for trial.
