The Daily Tombstone., 1886-11-05
COENTEEsFF5Eg CEN.
How Spurious Money Es Wade
 in New York City.

there have been many changes in the methods and manner of getting rid of the "queer" when made.
 The days of the hidden neck in the mountain, where, in hut, the expert maker of base coins carried on his ne- farious business with door carefully baricaded and rifles and reVolvers lying about within easy reach, are over. Now the coin is made mostly in cities, and that. too, in crowded neighborhoods.
 In the making of bad coins in this city the Italians have 8 monopoly, and 1t is against the Italian workmen that Chief Drnmmond of the Secret Service Bureau in this city, is kept busy in procuring evidence and bring ing them to court. Almost without exception, every Italian counterfeiter arrested in this city during the last three years-and there have been many of them capturcd-has said that he came from Sicily.
 They are as rule dull-lookipg, ig- norant fellows, notwithstanding their skill in furnishing and manufacturing the coins. Most frequently they have little knowledge of the jewelry trade and apparently they take as naturally to counterfeiting as fish to water. A numher of Italians in this city who are not makers of bad coins are al- ways ready to pass those made by others, and the skilled deviser ot ille- gi:imate money is te them hero.
 HOW THEY ARE MADE.
 The workman hires fat in a tens- ment into which he moves his family, rcserviug one room as a work shop.
 He lays in q stock of antimnoy, plaster of paris, moulJs, lathe, and other appliances, and is ready for for business. Rarely do the neigh- bors suspect that anything is wrong. He takes < good coin for a pattern soon has the room filled with tho coins iu various stages of construc- lion.
 Never does the maker attempt to pass the money himsclf. He either sells it to the passer, CT more frc-- quently b a niddlo man. For this reason 1t is difficult to get at ths makers, aud tic sccrcs gerciac detec- lives arc always happy when they find 6 workshop with kit sf toel, and a good supply Of stock. The middle man sells to the men vino dc the ras5ing.
 Bad cQln can be bought at tho rate of four dollars for len bad dollars, though higher prices are usually charged at frat. When the pAs$er gets the coin hc usually frequents the side streets, where small cigar stores and con fcctiouery shops are to be found, in which he passRs of his spurious dollars, etc, in payment for emall articles, thus receiving good money in change.
 The law requires that :'intent to de ceive" must be proven against the of fender and for this reason the conter- felt money passers 90 often in pairs.
 One man carries the coin. He deals it out one coin at the time to his con- panions who epter tAe sh,p, while the other remains outside Thus if the passer is arrested noother bad coins will be fopnd on his person and he can as>er; tLat he,lid not know flat the one coin he had offered in pay meut was bad. Many escape convict ion by this method.
 THE MEN WHO PASS THE CoUxTERFFITs
 The Italian fruit stands are usually unscrupulors iu working of bad money, though they seldom haze a stock of anything Of larger denom.- nation than dimes and quarters. More than half of the small coin that is bad works its way into circulation through these fellows
 You tell the vender that the coin is bad, aAd he will immediately cry out:
 Me no tell bada money; me jsst come from Italy.