New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-20
SMfRT FORGERS SNARTLY CAUGHT
TWO RAsC,IS FROM GERMANY ARRESTED BE
FORE THEY LEFT THE PIER THEY
LANDED on.

United States Deputy Marshal Frederick Bernhard
made a clever arrest on Friday night OF two German
forgcrs who ran away from Germany about four months
AGO after getting over 100000 marks on iofEeu DIE
OF fading. The forgcrs are simon ana JulHS hroAah
kcr OF Brombcrg. and they have been getting money
I'm tbis way I'm various sums since 1857. some time
after tboir last forcerics were committed Marshal
bernhard received from solomon DulonE, representa-
tive of the German Government, letter giving an
extremely incorrect description OF the two men ana
explaining in part the crimes OF which they were
guilty. They got from the BTumbcrgcr NorschusS
vcren a sort of tl1ist company in Ducblcr Prussia
10000 marks on forged bills Of lading for grain, OF
which they said they had 100000 marks worth
From Friedlander CaTcacl d Co., a banking concern
they coi 90 900 marks in the same way, and Other
forterits will run the amount up 10 over 100000
marks.
Marshal bernhard has been the watch for thcsc
mon ever since he received word that they were cN
pcctcd TO arrive in New York soon. The description
Of the men, as given him. the poorest. he says
that he ever had 10 work case mp on. Both Of The
men are over six feet high but the official description
of them put their height at five feet and eight inches
and five feet and six inches respectively
When the steamship Trave arrived at her pier on
Friday the marshal on hand and carefully cN
amincd each passenger to see if thcr, any tlcn'
CORES pond with the expected criminals. lie found
none ANA had hardly gotten through with his wor,
there when the Augusta Victoria. of the IIimbur,
American Line, came into port. lie went over her
passenger lists to if by any chance he could de-
tcct IN, men, There was nothing there TO give him
the least clcw and Ne mingled with the passengers
who we're waiting to have their baggage examined
10y the Custom House officials.
lie wa,chcd TO If any TWO men seemed to keep
together but he saw nothing to arouse his suspicious.
While he standing at tho gangpl1nk scrutinlz,uE
The passengers a. they lett the steamer hc 1"c-
IDENTIFY overheard one address another m a
manner peculiar 10 Germans when they speak -
near relatives, He immediately engaged them iu
conversation and saw by their accent that they must
have come from one of the Prus>lau province.
While talking with them a. their BAGGAGE was
bciu. examined he managed TO see d haudhcrcli 4
and a pair of stocking, on which were marked iu
req the Initial, J. X" The men both sand that th"
articles had been given to them by friends but al
marshal raised the Wa~tcodt OF one Of tn men ana
found the tcll-tlc initials on the tai OF tn ehIt.
Both men then dlr' ~tcd. and from m.'n'itld1
and books found upon them the marshal knc" thIj
they were the forsers whom he Wao aitcr. T"'y
Lad only 1000 Turh~ left
NJ. Hcyulau took them before Judge Lyman ava
N y were rcmandcd until tomorrow afcln. 'n 90
. d. IN. for a hearing. They travelled under IN
assumed names Of =. and j. Davidson
julius kroLanhcr Is font, three years old and Biz
brother Simon H. thirty ono. Both ar hdAdS"iF
men, one with bp X hair and mlstachc and ih.
othcr with blond hair and mustachc They were
locked ND in the Ludlow street Jail.