Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1914 — Detectives Spend “Bad” Money; Have No Evidence [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Detectives Spend “Bad” Money; Have No Evidence

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—Bert Cowdrey, a Chicago detective, met Capt. Tom Halls of the secret service during the prison congress. They talked of mutual friends and Captain Halls reached into his wallet for a card. Cowdrey spied a counterfeit note Halls had captured. __

“Raised, was it?" Cowdrey asked. “Yes, from two to ten,” Halls answered, meaning that the bill bad been raised from a $2 bank note to flO. . . ‘That reminds me of a funny thing that happened to me not long ago,” Cowdrey had pinched a bill raiser and had one of his bills In my pocket. My wife needed aotaff money and went into my pockets the next morning. §he got the bill, went down to a department store, spent it and then came home and told me about it. Well, Just imagine how I felt. I chased down to the store, but the bad bill had been passed on to some one else and I never heard of it again.” “Something like's couple of officers from southern Indiana,” Captain Halls broke in. “They had

arrested -a counterfeiter and when his case came up for trial they were sum* moned as witnesses. When the district attorney asked them to produce their evidence one of the officers fumbled in his pockets nervously, blushed and looked like a sad sheep. r 1 • “Didn’t you bring the bad money with you?” the district attorney inquired. “ ’Yes, sir,’ the officer replied, ‘but we missed connection at Terre Haute find I —l guess we spent it,’" * . *