Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1905 — NEW MILITARY INDUSTRY [ARTICLE]

NEW MILITARY INDUSTRY

Soldier* Establish n Counterfeit Money Plant and Turn Out Gold Plated ■-Siinoleona.” Honolulu, June 30.—United States Marshal E. R. Henry has arrested four soldiers belonging to the Twent y-fourth regiment of coast artillery on the charge of counterfeiting, passing and possessing spurious gold coin. The marshal also seized a gold-plating machine believed to have been used by the coflpterfeiters. All the coins made illegally are $5 and $lO pieces. The material used were lead and copper,plated with gold. An excellent die was used, but the coins are light and lack the ring of the genuine gold pieces. A number of them, believed to have been passed In the Japanese headquarters, reached a local bank on Saturday. An investigation was immediately begun and resulted as above stated.