New-York tribune., 1891-12-24
MAKING HONEY IN A CAVE.
YOUTHFUL COUNTERFEIIERS CAUGHT.
THEY THOUGHT 1T WAS EASIER TO COIN MONEY
THAN TO WORK.

THAN TO WORK.
Residents Of the NINTH fifteenth and sixteenth
precincts have for several weeks been losing brass
do,r knobs plates from letcrboXes and mouthplcccs
from fpeaking tubes. ON Tuesdl night LlOyi hoserS
seven cen years Old and his nineteen-year-od oro'e
Paul were arrested and number oi KNOBS iouuu III
their possession. As Lloyd Rogers was peihb ihch
IN the Charlcs-st. station he threw something away
Ons OF the policemen went back and searched the
,tor and finally found n number Of counterfeit
uichoI 3cent and lOcent pieces When the policeman
reached the station house Rogers had been locRea up
oaptain CoDelnd t for ROges, and whel the counter
felt pieces were PLACED the SIX before pm III o'oH
down and confessed. His statement was aS ioio"'
Between the first and the fifteenth of August ias'
while in Central Park met boy haihed .n'ri''
poacbIn. OF No. 133 Clinton Place, and he told me
how he made counterfeit coins and counterfeit pli'
n, worked at one time the American Bank No'e
Company | didn't see anything more OF MIN nh.'i
6ve weeks ago when i met MIN OH foui'ee.'
st and we went into Hubers Museum 'oscu'''
lie again told me about low lie cOuld make counliei
,oney and invited me 10 come to his house next day.
called and he took me down into the cellar anu gave
mo some samples of coin he had made ani shower
mo the action of nitric and supuric acids on German
silver lie also showed me AL impression OIL el
crccnl,ack on lthogaphc stone lie also sho"eu nio
picture OF General Grant IN stone lie 'oiu h'c ''a
IL look him three months to get one sldc vi 'i'' o'
done. When j returned nome, toiu nS hV'i'oi ""a
had seem and she warned me to have nothing ID 40
with Peachln.' -.,. -.
Rogers was again locked up, and on the streng'h o
his statement Captain Copeland detailed Ponccineh
Cooney and sullivan on tho Yesterday afternoon
the officer went TO Peachin's home. No. 133 Clinton
Place without attracting the attention OF the ten
ants the policemen groped their way downstairs to the
cellar and lighted "A match. On one side N the cellar
bricks had been removed from the walls for space OF
five feet in length. this, t. conceal IN" opening
were paced number of b ards These the officers pulled
aside and entered passage, which led to small cave
ding beneath the adjoining house There they found
vorlbench on which were lithographing tools ana
pelatne papcr for tracing. number OF hthOgraphc
stones bottE of nitric and sulphunc acids and oil of
vitlol a quantity of sheet nickel, from fifty to 100
plain blanks ready for stamping and number oi
stamped scent pieces.
As the officers coming out OF the cave they
met Peachin lie was arrested and broke down ana
confessed ALL Up to a month ago. he said, he workea
for the American rank Note Company, and hnaiy de-
cded that ii would be easier to make money himself
than 10 work for IT, Rogers, he declared, was as much
interested in their scheme he. 1t was 'R0ges, ne
said who procured the sheets Of nickel from whch
they made their coin. - u, fhoros 81,
When Pcachin searched at tie Chares-s'
,tatlon in his possession found large bunch of
KEYS and Students certificate in his own name ront
The National Academy of Design. The cerllncate Is
Tor 3oI and S02 and IS No. 1874. Rogers and Pean
will be taken before United states Commissioner Shelds
today TO answer a charge Of counteIfetng.