Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1920 — COUNTERFEITERS’ OUTFIT FOUND AT LAFAYETTE [ARTICLE]

COUNTERFEITERS’ OUTFIT FOUND AT LAFAYETTE

Lafayette, June 5.—A counterfieiter’s outfit, which was unearthed this week at West Point in this county by workmen engaged in razing an old building to make way for a new bank structure/ has been identified by Thomas E. Halls\ of the United States secret service at Indianapolis, as property that belonged to George Hamy a counterfeiter, who operated in this part of the state thirty-three years ago. Ham was arrested at West Point in 1887 and several dies were confiscated at the time. Not all of the outfit, however, was found at that time. The die for making dollars of the date of 1881 had been hidden in the walls of the building at West Point and it was this which was found this week by the workmen. The die has been turned over to the secret service authorities.