New-York tribune., 1901-12-09
RAID ON a BAD MONEY DEN
SECRET SERVICE MEN CAPTURE SEVEN
OF AN ALLEGED GANG OF
COUNTERFEITERS

william P Flynn. agent IN charge of the
limited States Secret Service Bureau for this
district and number Of his assistants on Sat-
urday night made Sd important raid. as q result
o. which seven men are locked up In Ludlow
Street Jail They will be arraigned before
United States Commissioner Morle IN Brooklyn
.hfs morning to answer to the charge Of making
and passing counterfeit quarter dollar coins.
Mr. Flynn has been following Up the trail Of
these men for more than a month. On Satur-
aay with Inspectors Burke, TyreIl, Murphy.
coueu, Klinke and Peeke. he went to No. 81
weling-st-. Astoria, where he had reason to
pelsev> that the plant was. The building is a
.-ee story frame house. which IS rented by
Norris Weitznan. who lives there with his wife
snd three young children Weitzrnan was placed
under arrest He greatly frightened, and
his wife tainted Then the Secret Service men
went down TO the basement. where they found
q screw press fastened to oak beams laid the
floor with which the bogus coins were struck.
The press is one Of the best make, and set Of
Tie dies from which the counterfeit coins were
stamped was found IN the press. The officers
found three other sets of dies for the making Of
SPURIOUS 25 cent coins lot Of sheet silver.
large quantity Of punched sheet metal from
which coins had been struck. two unfinished dies
for the making OF dimes, unfinished set OF
dies for the making Of 25 cent coins acid used
In dressing counterfeit coins, and many coun-
ter<eit quarter dollars. Then the officers sat
down and waited for other members Of the gang
TO appear.
In the afternoon Moses Putteruan. Jacob Pol
land and Samuel Hessrnan arrived at the house.
and arrested
At night Mr. Flynn and his assistants went to
So II East One-hundred-and-f -f1fteeuth-st., Mar
haitian where they arrested Elias Fox anu
Moses Rosengarden- Rosengarden, II is alleged
is the engraver who made the dies Later the
last prisoner was taken into custody al ms loLhe
NJ : TS4 Third He is Moses Beanstalk.
All OF the prisoners are Polish Jews. hosen-
garden the Secret Service men say, was ths
go oF : gang of couuterfeiters which operated
IN Philadelphia about six years ago ne Nds
assert 70 q term Of five years in the Cherry Hin
--Ison None of the other prisoners, SO lar as
Known have any previous record as counter
feiters- , , g.. +h.s
ritv Yesterday. and praised his men TOT lneAr
THE coins are not as well finished as those
t,,rned oft by the Paris gang, ne salQ, out
srev are we'll calculated TO deceive the ordinary
sborkeeper They are made OF genuine siINeI,
rnora silver than the genuine coins. when are
only 900 fine. They are, however, roushls Hill
ished- .e,t+ ,o,-,
has been put in circulation there is l.o "a
of telling but I do not think II Is very So
Among the dies found III the house IN w eiiIls
Ct vas one for an old Hebrew com rms, NV NV
.vp- 7 think was not intended Tor c-icuIe .LcIl,
tu+ 70 be sold to collectors ! MS u o1ie % -
-ooe- Important captures that has been mace IN
. - lime and Agent Flynn deserves nlga
: .Sse <o- the manner IL which he has WORKED