Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1897 — A COUNTERFEITER CAUGHT. [ARTICLE]

A COUNTERFEITER CAUGHT.

The Police of Syracuse Make an Important Capture. On Monday, the loth, Harold Marquisee, of Utica, N. Y., was arrested in Syracuse, N. Y., on a warrant sworn out by the Dr. Williams* Medicine Co., charging him with forgery. On the 15th of December Marquisee visited a photo-engrav-er in Syracuse, saying he was the representative of the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., and arranged for the making of u full set of plates for the direction slieetS; labels, etc., of the famous Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. News of this reached the home office, nnd no time was lost in arranging for his arrest when he should return for the plates. He returned on the 15th and was accordingly arrested and is uow in jail in Syracuse awaiting examination, which occurs on March 2. This arrest proves to be nu important one. In addition to various plunder, such ns medical books, typewriters, rugs, etc., found in Marquisee’s trunk when arrested, the police also found counterfeit coin both in the trunk and on his person; and in a search of his apartments at Utica found a complete outfit for counterfeiting. consisting of crucibles, bellows, nickel, lead, bismuth, antimony, n small blacksmith forge, a charcoal furnace, and several plaster-oNnaris moulds. The United States marshals want him just as soon as the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co. are through vyith him, and, no doubt, he will be sentenced for a long period. In selecting Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for his counterfeiting operations, he showed his knowledge of the proprietary medicine business; tor these pills are in such great demand that they are easily sold at any drug store in the United States. His scheme wns to work the country druggists and sell his imitations at a discount of from 2 per eent. to 5 per cent., explaining the reduced price by the fact that he had picked them up in small lots and at a discount from dealers who were overstocked. By working fast and making long jumps, he would have secured many hundreds of dollars in a short time. The proprietors of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are most fortunate to have caught the rogue before he had fairly started, and to have thus kept these spurious goods out of the market.