Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1900 — CAUGHT MAKING QUEER MONEY. [ARTICLE]

CAUGHT MAKING QUEER MONEY.

Father, Son and a Woman Bagged at Lafayette. Robert McKee, an old soldier, his son, Howard McKee, and Eliza Jane Herron were arrested at Lafayette, charged with counterfeiting. When arrested, Robert McKee was in the act of pouring metal into molds. The police captured the entire plant and quite a sum of bogus money, of the denominations of quarters and nickels.