Options
Some fun for Carson Mint fans - Stealing bullion in 1893.
RogerB
Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
Charlotte Mint fans got a little something special yesterday, so here's something for Carson Mint lovers. This "confession" was discovered yesterday amid miscellaneous US Mint documents. Does anyone know if there was follow-up action?
4
Comments
The ol' "gold from the sweating tub in the lunch basket" switcharoo. Classic.
Sounds like it was easier than the what the Canadian smelter had to do recently. And it sure does validate @3keepSECRETif2rDEAD's handle lol
or the "Jones said i was taking too much; that he had to pay out to buy silver with.'
Who admits to this in writing?
Who is James Heney?
I take that this was at least part of the scandal that got the Carson City Mint closed in 1893. As I understand it more silver when into that mint than came out in the form of coins.
He's writing it from behind bars, probably some kind of plea bargain to testify against the other two. $60K wow, That was a $hit-ton of money back then. I wonder how many years they got.
Successful BST:here and ATS, bumanchu, wdrob, hashtag, KeeNoooo, mikej61, Yonico, Meltdown, BAJJERFAN, Excaliber, lordmarcovan, cucamongacoin, robkool, bradyc, tonedcointrader, mumu, Windycity, astrotrain, tizofthe, overdate, rwyarmch, mkman123, Timbuk3,GBurger717, airplanenut, coinkid855 ,illini420, michaeldixon, Weiss, Morpheus, Deepcoin, Collectorcoins, AUandAG, D.Schwager, blu62vette, morgan13, torinoCobra71, JWP, promethius88,
There is a case file among the Secret Service records, but I have not looked at it ....
I have to assume the 'Bodie melt' was from the Bodie Mine, no?
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
That would make a good chapter in a book of scams and schemes.....Cheers, RickO
Although I've read it elsewhere a long time ago, this is a link I just found in a search.
http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n23a27.html
Casting the bullion into heavy balls WOULD make it very very hard to make a getaway on horseback.
????????????????
Large US silver bars were 2,000 T oz or about 137 pounds. These were considered of sufficient weight to discourage theft when silver was being transported to West Point Bullion Depository.
"Bodie" was a town and a mining district. Could have come from one of many mines or just be a generalization such as from "Virginia City".
Bodie California:
I do remember back in the shop how the "mere" 72 pounds ....discouraged.... shipping all those 90% bags.