Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1912 — Poor Paste Causes Undoing. [ARTICLE]

Poor Paste Causes Undoing.

Hammond, Aug. 29.—Carelessness in his work caused the apprehension of Peter E. Malatln, a counterfeiter, for whom secret service men had been searching two years. His plan was to take ciphers from $lO bills and paste them on other $lO bills, thus raising the latter to SIOO. So cleverly was the work done that even banks were fooled by the raised money. Detection came when the extra cipher on a bill just passed in a saloon came loose because of poor paste. A large number of raised bills were found on his person.