Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-10-11
C0UNTERFEITERs ARRESTED.
Conspirators Who Knew each other Only by
Numbers.

Conspirators Who Knew eacn otner Vnly ny
Numbers
Chief W. B. Hazer, of the United States
secret service, claims to have captured seF'
eral members OF daring band oil counter
feiters who were engaged in making coins OF
pure silver in Landisyille, N J. Henry
Greenberg and julius Stein were taken 10
Philadelphia and held for trial. During tne
week five other men were arrested. Trey
gave the names OF Max FrankeI. Moses
Rosengarten, Jac b Friedman, jacob Fihe-
burg and Frank Siberman, all oil Pni'soei-
phia.
At Landisville, N j., the detective found IN
the cellar OF house an entire conner 8 ouS-
flt. There was an immel se iron press, "eign
ing nearly two tons, used for stamping
number OF dies, between 600 and pouuu'
OF nickel, the same rs that use by the gov
ernment. and q quaint OF pure silver, which
was used in the manufac ure Oh the LOCUS
dimes, quar- ers and hs yes.
The eyidelc secured by the bureau re-
yeals conspiracy unriyaled ou'sl o 'ne
realms of the dime novss The Rand, as iar
as has teen learned wa, composed of about
twenty. and possibly more. They were oanoeu
together by q series Of ircnc'ad ana SO emu
oaths. Names we're discarde and every
conspirator va, known TO the others by
numb, only. Each man was assigned
specIal territory In which to spose oi I g
coin.
Upon the arrest OF the Ave men in Pnilauel-
Ehia r. Gently tho other conspirators heI, ana
although the arrest OF Greenberg and STEIN
dsposes of the mcst dangerous members oi
most dangerous land, thero are still others
to be captured, and they will proba ly land
In the net OF the law within few days.
The men are al Roumanian Jews AM
have not been In this country any length Of
time. They are a sturdy-looking lot, ali Dig
and full bearded, with the exception Oh
Friedman.
peculiar feature OF the case is that after
the men had been arrested information con-
cerning their operations was furnished the
United States officials by a man calling
himself David Florst,in, OF Landlsvi'le' NJ
7 who was implicl el in the matter him.
self Flerstein's story is that Il 'senGarten,
Erie ,man and man named BAIT were
ought to his house las: Juy by Relsser.
They wanted him to 60 into partnership with
them. and asked him to allow them t. u 9 his
cellar to make the coins. He said he wouio
rent it to them, and they went away, promis'
Ing to write but, he says they never did so
At,eryard meeting was arranged Tor In tnl'
citv but as the others had money Fierstein
payned his wife's wa ca f,r $40, an with
This the 90 Is we're packed and the dies and
other materials sent to the Landisyilie
h use.
"They want d me 10 work the pl esses ana
make the coins, he continued, but se't
word, they would have to como down, De-
cause did not know anything about max
ing the coins. To arrange ma tiers said that
1 wanted to see all the memLerS OF the gang
and kuc W Just how many there were. we
had a meeting in Reisser's house, In Landis-
Vile and they tod me that all the members
were there. The number was thirteen. L
advised the purchase Of moro machinery as
I did not think what was then used sufficient
and we decided to buy 800 enclosing
press and dye for cltting the nickel. Some
talk occurred about moving the machinery
to my house, aud then decided it was II ne
for the ficers to make the arrests. "
Kavs Reisser. Russian tailor, test fl 81 at
the hearing that he was takei by siIberman
TO house. on Washing on avenue, below
Seventh, where they me: Friedman, Roseh-
parten ard Fineburg. They showed him a
satchel full OF di s to be used In making con
and offe: ed to let him into the consl i-acy 1
he would pay them s2O. He paid the
money. and they then took him to house in
Darby. Pa, where he saw the presses, dies
and other raraphernalia used In making me
coils. He placed two pieces OF silver in the
press and made two ten-cent pieces
After this the goods were taken from the
Darly place 10 TIE cellar o. Friedman's resi-
dence, on Sixth street, AMI latter to the ace
OF David Fiess.ein, at Llndisvil.e, waert
thev made ths nicke!s They ha not the
exact quality OF nickel wanted for the pieces
and Friedmln and Rosengarten went to 20 =
necticut to try to secure the proper meal
Reisser said that at this time he was shown
several letters and te.egrams ordering meta
for The purpose Of coming. After their re
turn with some silver ms:al, for which ST
were paid, they coined $35 in dimes, whicl
were taken away to be pas el. Rosengarter
was an engraver, and be cut the dies.