WILKIE'S MEN ARREST ALLEGED COUNTERFEITERS
Item
- Title
- WILKIE'S MEN ARREST ALLEGED COUNTERFEITERS
- Source
- The Washington Times
- Date
- 1903-12-19
- page
- 12
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026749/1903-12-19/ed-1/?sp=12&q=counterfeiting&r=0.101,0.291,0.351,0.21,0
- Crime
- Counterfeiting
- Subject
- operation, plant, bank notes
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offenders
- Law enforcement involved
- Secret Service
- Stage of the Legal System
- Arrest
- Location
- Out-of-state, MA
- Length of story
- 177
- Description
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WILKIE’S MEN ARREST ALLEGED COUNTERFEITERS
Clever Work in Making Notes on New England Banks
Chief Wilkie has been advised that his agents in Boston have arrested James H. Wllson and Edward B. Wiggin, charged with counterfeiting operations in New England cities on an extensive scale. It is said that through a process of semi-color photography they were able to perfect the most successful counterfeits of national bank notes ever produced.
The plant of the men was in Boston and their plan was to make but few notes on any one bank. After producing a small quantity of notes on a given bank they went to the locality, floated the notes and then returned to Boston and destroyed the plates. In this way, they evaded detection for months.
Last Thursday, the men went to Nassau and Manchester. N. H., and disposed of eight $10 notes in the course of the day. They were followed by Secret Service men and were arrested there. They have counterfeited notes of banks in Boston, Lynn, Waltham and a number of other places.
