Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1902 — Counterfeiters Arrested. [ARTICLE]

Counterfeiters Arrested.

Secret service offloers arrested two counterfeiters in this county, last Friday, and secured all of their paraphernalia. The names of the counterfeiters were Oscar Sorrensen and Albert Merrill, of Indianapolis, both of whom are now behind the bars anxious to receive sentenoe and get off as easy as possible. They were caught redhanded Friday morning by detectives. Merrll and Sorrensen rented an upstairs room in a farmhouse, a few miles from Morocoo. It was not a place likely to be suspeoted as a den of counterfeiters. How it came to be suspeoted will probably never be known outside the federal grand jury room, as the seoret service officials seldom tell these things. The tip on the plaoe is understood, however, to have oome from Chicago. The three offioers found their way to the house early Friday morning. Merrill, who was there at the time, made a spectacular attempt to get the paraphernalia, whioh was in the attio, hid from the officers, but they found it with little difficulty, and arrested Merrill. Sorrensen was later arrested. The officers regard this as one of the most important captures they ever made, as the dies whioh were just being perfected for splendid counterfeiting work were secured before muoh money had been made. The molds are fixed for making silver dollars, quarters and nlokels. They are said to be among the most perfect and accurate ever found among counterfeiters. The surroundings of the attic and the completeness of the outfit showed that the counterfeiters were preparing to go to work on a big soale. A dippor of melted metal was found, on which the workmen had been experimenting to secure the proper alloy necessary to fill all the fine lines in the molds.—Goodland Herald.