Orleans County VT News From the Past

A Prominent Citizen's Arrest. NEWPORT, VT, January 24.—S. M. Fields, a prominent citizen and railroad contractor, has been arrested by the treasury department for Passing counterfeit half dollars. He claimed that he used the bogus coins innocently. Source: Galveston News January 25, 1883 -- Contributed by Janice Rice

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