MADE BOGUS COIN FOR VENEZUELANS
Item
- Title
- MADE BOGUS COIN FOR VENEZUELANS
- Source
- The Washington Times
- Date
- 1906-08-30
- page
- 6
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026749/1906-08-30/ed-1/?sp=6&q=counterfeiting&r=0.671,0.827,0.519,0.31,0
- Crime
- Counterfeiting
- Subject
- captain, coins, Venezuelan, dies
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Law enforcement involved
- Secret Service
- Stage of the Legal System
- Arrest
- Location
- Out-of-state, NY
- Length of story
- 245
- Description
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MADE BOGUS COIN FOR VENEZUELANS
Captain Boynton Arrested by Secret Service Men in New York
Chief Wilkie, of the Secret Service of the Treasury Department, has filed with State Department a formal report of the recent arrest by his officers of Capt. George B Boynton in New York, on the charge of counterfeiting coins of the Venezuelan government so that the latter government may be fully Informed of the action taken by the United States in the affair. Chief Wilkie says that the probabilities are that they have Captain Boynton on the road to the penitentiary as the penalty for counterfeiting foreign corns Is not more than five years in the penitentiary and not more than $1000 fine.
Captain Boynton was caught with the goods on him in the shape of some finely executed dies of the five-bolivar piece of Venezuela which is equivalent to the American dollar. At the time of his arrest he claimed that he was promoting a war measure and he will put up the same defense when he faces a Jury on September 11. He produced credentials signed by A S Salinas purporting to be the head of a revolutionary movement against the government of President Castro, and Boynton to act as its agent in the United States One cf his duties was to prepare for an Issue of Venezuelan coin which was to be floated in Venezuela no finance the revolution. These credentials, it has been discovered were forged
