UNITED STATES MARINE FACES SERIOUS CHARGES
Item
- Title
- UNITED STATES MARINE FACES SERIOUS CHARGES
- Source
- The Washington Times
- Date
- 1904-02-21
- page
- 2
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026749/1904-02-21/ed-1/?sp=2&q=counterfeiting&r=-0.088,0.592,0.513,0.306,0
- Crime
- Counterfeiting
- Subject
- marine, zinc, ladle, sieve
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Law enforcement involved
- Police
- Stage of the Legal System
- Arrest
- Length of story
- 129
- Description
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UNITED STATES MARINE FACES SERIOUS CHARGES
Arrested Last Evening Charged With Counterfeiting.
Suspected of counterfeiting United States money, John C. Eckert, twenty-five years old, a United States marine was taken into custody by the police last night. He denies all knowledge of the nature of money-making except working for it as a $16-a-month marine.
The police have in their possession a quantity of zinc, a suspicious looking ladle, and a sieve. They also have prospects of recovering other counterfeiting paraphernalia today or tomorrow. They say these articles belong to the marine. He denies this.
Policeman McTaggart received information from a woman last evening that she knew where a counterfeiter was, as well as the hiding place of his “layout.” After getting the zinc, ladle, sieve the police arrested Eckert.
