Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1886 — THE “QUEER” IN PRISON. [ARTICLE]

THE “QUEER” IN PRISON.

Discovery of Counterfeiters’ Molds and Bogus Money in the Kansas State Penitentiary. [Leavenworth teleg am.) Considerable excitement was caused in the Kansas State Penitentiary by the discovery that a number of counterfeiters’ mokls had been in nse for some time by a couple of convicts, the latter having successfully made a number of bogus coins. A quantity of the latter, representing perhaps $6, was found in the cell of one of the convicts. The molds were accidentally discovered in the drying-room of the laundry, where tho two convicts were employed. When examined they said that they»had been assisted by some of the guards, who procured materials for them and got rid of tho spurious coins. They named two of the guards, who have been suspended from duty pending an investigation, but it is generally thought the guards are innocent. The counterfeiting had gone on for several weeks.