Broken Up

St. Louis, April 10. – The police of this city yesterday broke up an extensive counterfeiting establishment; seized about twenty five thousand dollars bogus U. S. Treasury notes, and some 10,000 dollars counterfeit notes on State Bank of Indiana, together with eleven banknote plates, and an assortment of materials used by bank note engravers.

An adroit counterfeit note engraver named Harvey Walter alias Hill, and a number of suspicious characters residing here, all known to have been heretofore engaged in the sale or passing of counterfeit bills, were arrested.

– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, April 12, 1862