Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1914 — Wife Tells How Her Husband Made Spurious Cash [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Wife Tells How Her Husband Made Spurious Cash

ST. LOUS, MO. —Mrs. Lula Bush of 366 Carrie avenue told Police -Captain O’Brien the other day of watching her husband make counterfeit money almost nightly for five months in their home. The husband, William C. Bush,

was arrested after a policeman had found a mold for making counterfeit half dollars-, two spurious half dollars and one spurious nickel in the Bush home. Bush’s home was searched by Policeman Pribble after an informant had told him there was a counterfeiting plant at the Carrie avenue address. The mold, made of wood and consisting of two pieces, was found in a bureau drawer. The counterfeit coins were under a carpet near the bureau.

Bush denied knowledge of the mold or bad coins. Pribble took Mrs. Bush to Captain O'Brien. She gave a detailed story of her knowledge of the counterfeiting. She said that she did washing to support herself and the two children, a sixteen-year-old boy and a baby girl, and that her husband had not worked for six months. a “I warned him against making the money,” she said, “but he told me to mind my own business. He said it was an easy way to get money.”