Lanier-Berrien-Coffee County GaArchives News.....1910 - PHONEY GOLD COINS CAUSE TWO ARRESTS March 1, 1910
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Milledgeville Union Recorder March 1, 1910
Union Recorder, Mar. 1, 1910 -- page 6

PHONEY GOLD COINS CAUSE TWO ARRESTS

Dr. J. Dedge of Coffee County is Held to Await Trial for Counterfeiting

    Valdosta, Ga. Feb 24 - Dr. J.R. Dedge, a dentist at Nicholls, Coffee 
county, Ga. and his brother. E. E. Dedge of Milltown, Berrien county, were 
arrested by United States secret service men and  brought to Valdosta to-day, 
charged with being implicated in the disposal of counterfeiting $10 gold 
pieces.
    The former was given a perliminary hearing before united states 
Commissioner Roy E. Powell and bound over under a bond of $4,000. The warrant 
against the latter was dismissed. 
    Dr. J. R. Dedge was arrested by Special Treasury Agent J. M. Wright and 
Postoffice Inspector Brittain, at the home of his father in Appling county at 
a late hour last night, while E. E. Dedge was taken into custody by Deputy 
Marshals J. M. Sutton and D. H. Riley at Milltown.
    When the former was arrested the officers said a small box containing ten 
spurious  $10 gold pieces was found in his overcoat pocket and these coins 
were exhibited as evidence against the accused at the hearing in the 
afternoon. Their workmanship is pronounced by the officers as about the best 
they saw. The coins apparently are made of a white metal plated with gold and 
could be readily passed as genuine on a person who happened not to notice them 
carefully. Their greatest defect is their light weight, two of them weighing 
but little more than our genuine coin weighs.
    The case against D. Dedge was worked up by Inspector Brittain. On the 
stand he stated that the box of coins, which he has received through the mails 
addressed to the  accused at Douglas, Ga. had been ordered forwarded to 
Nicholls. The inspector's attention was called to it by the post-master and 
his assitants, whose suspicions had been aroused in some manner. The inspector 
opened the box and carried it to the deputy collector's office at Macon, where 
it was exhibited to Collector Storrs.


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