with renewed vigour. The farm at Beau- mont was deserted. Their bird had flown. This practically clinched the case, if you could call it that, against him. Where was he? Nobody seemed to have the slightest idea. Despite the closest search the eminent Russian had vanished. He was not seen or heard of in any of the large cities in the United States. Nor did the Canadian police know anything of him. The experts in Washington were still working on the notes. How had they been made? If they could learn that they would have a lead. The notes must have been made from etchings, they decided. On the other hand they might have been the results of a new process. At last the problem was solved. The spurious notes were being made by a colour- photographic process. The man who made the notes transferred them to a metal plate by a photographic process. By the scientific use of acids he had etched the photo on to the plates making a perfect copy. He then printed them on the butter paper. It was no wonder that every detail of them was perfect. The man was evidently an expert photo- grapher. Secret Service men began to Phone Highland 3705 Res. HIghland 0337-Y Harbour Boatyards Limited BUILDERS AND REPAIRERS Tugs, Launches, Yachts, Fishing Boats, Etc. Machinists—2 Marine Ways, 1 Inside 3015 Wall Street Vancouver, B. C. Phone Highland 0240 KEEP FIT — GO TO HASTINGS STEAM BATHS J. WEPSALA, Manager ALWAYS OPEN Expert Masseurs in Attendance 764 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, B. C. fiarron Bros. Ltd. FUNERAL DIRECTORS “THhere Beauty Blends with Dignity” Vancouver—55 E. 10th Avenue—Fair. 0134 North Vancouver—122 W. 6th St.—North 134 check on photographic supply dealers all over the United States. It was a good deal like looking for virtue in Sodom but it was a lead. October, 1911 rolled around. The coun- terfeiters had not yet been captured, or even sighted. Bank tellers were on the alert in every American city. Every ten dollar note was doubly scrutinized and the person who tendered it inspected carefully. Spurious ten dollar Buffalo notes too, had been picked up. These were also closely ex- amined when they reached the banks. But the U. S. Secret Service was not asleep. The average person might think it is a comparatively easy thing to pass bad money. They will assume that it is accepted without guestion and it would be impossible to trace the person who passed it in the rush of business, in a large department store for example. This impression 1s erroneous. As soon as the Treasury officials of any nation discover that counterfeit money is being circulated they place ex- perts at every point where the money is apt to come in. As soon as a bad note arrives it is spotted. Within a few minutes they have tracked down its source. They are then able to tell approximately where the gang are operating; their route and their habits. It is then only a matter of t’me be- fore they are trapped. These orthodox methods were now be- ginning to produce results. In Chicago the cream of the U. S. Treasury Department agents were working at top speed. One or two of the notes had turned up there and every possible place was being covered. In a large Chicago store a Treasury agent was waiting his turn to go on duty. He was lounging near the cash office when he was suddenly called by a cashier who had a ten dollar note in his hand. One glance and the agent knew it was one of those masterpieces that had turned up on the Pacific coast. The cashier pointed out two men who were waiting for their change. “That man there gave us this note.” the cashier explained. West Vancouver—18th & Marine—West 134 The Secret Service man gave a signal. The two men were immediately surrounded by agents who seemed to have appeared from nowhere. They were arrested without a struggle and gave their names as Rudolph Swanson and Fred. Marneek. They were at once taken away for search and ques tioning. In 1911 the methods employed by the American police in questioning suspects were not designed to make the prisoner comfortable in either mind or body. Mr. Swanson withstood the indelicate attacks for some time and then suddenly broke. “The man who makes these notes,” he said, “is Albert Leon.” “Where is he?” “T don’t know. He might be at his home now.” was the evasive reply. “Where is his home?” “On Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia.” came the astonishing reply. Within two minutes a telegram was on its way to Seattle where Secret Service agents received it and left at once for Victoria where they immediately contacted Colin Campbell, superintendent of the B. C. Provincial Police. Compliments of Western Auto Supply Company Limited 510 Georgia Street West Vancouver, B.C. Phones: HIghland 4577-4578 West Coast Trading Co. LIMITED 502 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, B. C. Interior, front of Chapel of Chimes Page One Hundred THE SHOULDER STRAP