Solving a numismatic crime...in 1949

BillyKingsley

During the course of his genealogical research, my brother found a newspaper article about our great grand-uncle solving a coin related crime. Thought you might like to see it. Henry Martinez is our uncle.

coinsarefun

That is so very cool! I had an uncle but on the wrong side of the law
Arrested for something very bad and spent a fair amount of time in jail.....and he was an attorney!

braddick

Nice! I wonder what the date were on those stolen half dollars.

trueblood

What year was this?

braddick

@trueblood said:
What year was this?

Based on, "Discovered at 2 PM yesterday..."
I am going with early to mid-1947.

RB1026

Well done Patrolman Henry Martinez! That's a really cool memento for you and your family to have.

1northcoin

Seeing “1949” in the title of this thread caught my attention.

I had just learned that was the same year that Ranch Dressing was invented, and in Alaska of all places!

Now to keep this comment coin related, the invetor in 1972 subsequently sold the recipe to Hidden Valley for a lot of coin - several millions.

johnny9434

Cool thread sort of. I wonder if there's more info on it.

ricko

Interesting old article.... I like the phrase 'heavy with silver coins'....This happened in the general area where I live... back then, I was only seven years old and mainly read the comics on Sunday Cheers, RickO

Hydrant

@1northcoin said:
Seeing “1949” in the title of this thread caught my attention.

I had just learned that was the same year that Ranch Dressing was invented, and in Alaska of all places!

I don't know who your source of information is but people on the ranch around here were dressing way before 1949. Maybe we were just trend setters way ahead of the times but ranch dressing was just a common fact of life. People didn't give it a second thought. Boots, denim jeans, shirts, cowboy hats, the whole nine yards. No big deal. Also, I would think that ranchers in Alaska of all places would have figured out to get dressed way before 1949. It gets really cold up there and rounding up the livestock in your birthday suit would my mighty uncomfortable. Not to mention the saddle sores! Whoa, Nelly!