Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1902 — COUNTERFEITERS IN NEWTON. [ARTICLE]

COUNTERFEITERS IN NEWTON.

Two Young Men Arrested Near Bogus Island for flaking Spurious Coin. 'jTwo young men, Oscar Forensen and Mearl, were arrested in Newton county, northwest of Bogus island, for counterfeiting last Friday morning by a U. S. Marshal from Indianapolis. They were making dollars, halves and quarters, and the officers got the entire stock, including the dies, which had been made in Chicago. Lit seems that secret service men had been on to this little deal of the boys from the beginning, and as soon as a few dollars had been turned out they were in the law’s clutches. Sorensen was the active man in the business and Mearl in all probability was a mere tool, it is said.