The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1889-06-15
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treasury department recently made q
haul of counterfeiters In q clever man.
ner after as neat q piece Of work as Is
usually encountered even in the mod
ern novel. In that mysterious manner
known only to trained agents of the
service, Il became known that two
men, named Frederick Brodbeck and
Chester Collins, we're the owners Of
an apparatus for making bogus coin,
and. were turning out q quantity of
crooked money, their headquarters be-
ing on q canal boat running up into
the state from New York city. They
carried on an ostensibly honest trade
a. freighters. The service agents In
New York watched them pretty
closely, and when the "Sinn," which
was the suggestive name of the craft,
went up the canal to Roundout they
laid plan TO capture the outfit. One
agent-called for the purpose Of the
case Jones, since the service Is shy
about letting the names OF their men
become known-thereupo betook
himself to RouDdout, and arraying
himself in q combination of rags that
would disgrace Jersey tramp, loafed
around the "Sinn."
Catching the eye of Brodbeck, who
posed as captain of the boat, he asked
him when he was going back to New
York. The reply was in two or three
weeks. Jones then exhibited himself
in all his wretchedness, and asked for
ride down, as he had, pointing to
pair of shoes artisticallv worn out,
walked ell the way from Troy. Brod-
beck, not caring for intruders, refused
to let him work his passage as he de-
sired, but finally gave him the job of
pumping out the boat, promising him
ten cents with which the poor fellow
could get something to eat. Jones
pumped for two hours and was given
twelve cents, including a nickel that
was counterfeit. lie came back the
next day and hired out again, manag-
ing to keep around the boat for sew
eral days in this way, and receiving
quite large number of bad pieces.
The boatman usually made inquiries
as TO what he had done with the
money, presumably to test Its efficacy
in passing. Jones nosed about a good
deal, but was handicapped by the ex-
treme watchfulness of Brodbeck, Col
Inns remaining in the cabin most OF
the time, so that all he obtained in
the way of evidence was the bad
money he bad been paid In return for
his hard pumping, and occasional
shifts of the odor Of melted lead issu-
ing from the cabin, which he was not
allowed to enter. He was at work ut
the pump one day when q couple of
the secret service men came up and
told Brodbeck that Jones was q crook
from Troy and that they wanted him,
and proposed to search the boat for
stuff they thought he had hidden
there. Brodbeck declared that there
was nothing in the boat, but they
searched 1t nevertheless and hauled
from the cabin quite an outfit of coun-
terfeitiDg apparatus. The partners
claimed that Jones had struggled
them on board. They were taken
down to New York, and upon exam
ination made clean denials of all guilt,
alleging that the name of their craft
was the only sinful thing about them
or their lives. Then Jones told his
story, in simple, unaffected manner,
and when he had finished he said that
he had gone there as a secret service
official and had been given bad money
and had smelt 1t cooking. This unex-
pected revelation entirely broke up
the innocence of the pair, who re-
marked that the liz was up and made