From the Mansfield News (Mansfield, Ohio) May 9, 1934 

COUNTERFEITER
JAILED ON COAST
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Confesses He Made 20,000
Spurious Bills in Ohio

   SAN FRANCISCO -- Charged with manufacturing $100.000  in counterfeit federal reserve notes. Lawrence Gilliland, 39, confessed, federal agents said, that he made 20,000 spurious bills in a little shack at Morrow, O., near Cincinnati.
   Gilliland said he was given a course in photo engraving by the government after being wounded in the World war, and that he had sold other plates for making fake bills.

--- contributed by Kate Maynard, 2010