The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-28
LAST OF COMING GANG CAUGHT
MORE THAN 20 or THE CLEMENT
OUTFIT DOING TINE.
Yankee Treasury Agent Got Clement
Himself In Toronto AMI Canada
Promptly Gave Him Is Years Andrea
Romano Found NJ Niagara Falls.

With the arres, in Niagara Falls on We'd
nesday night Of Andrea Romano. who
formerly ran saloon al Prince street
in thscity. the Secret Service agents have
rounded up the last OF a large gang of
Italian Counterfoi,ers who, they say, are
responsible for AZ least 10 per cent. of all
the nodded counterfeit coin that has been
circulated in these parts in the last year.
More than a score of the gang are'now
doing terms in the State prisons Of New
York. New Jersey or Pennsylvania. Agent
William J. Flynn learned that the bad
money was manufactured in Hackensack,
y. }. brought to New York and retailcd
to the showers" here. On Nav I raid
on cottage at Pya't pace and Hack
ensack avenue. Hacken-ack discovered
an elaborate couuterfe'ting layout. The
Secret Service men caught four Of the
gang redhanded and secured several hun
dred dollars in nodded counterfeit half
GollarS Tia" cottage had been rented
several mont h. before AZ a summer resi-
dcnce" by Salvatore Clement. he maker
of the coin. Clement himself was not
in the place when the Secret Service men
came, but his mother, Annie Clement.
80 wears old. was. Her particular part
in the couuterfeiting game was To- carry
the output Of the plant in small con>ign-
ments from Hackensack To this city. She
was locked up with the Others and later
was sentenced in New Jersey court to
one years Imprisonment.
Inc I.eNt ua, afor the raid the Govern
meEt agents visited "A barber shop AZ s67
First avenue. this city, owned lOiltly toy
Cieinelti aud another italian nance, Gin
Al.
a. a way station in getting the illega money
to market. u WAS here that tlemeiti's
mot her, bowed with her tourscore wears.
left the small parcels Of bad half dollars and
quarters that she brought across the North
River. From the barber shop the coi..s
were carried 10 Andrea Romano's saloon
al Prince street. Here the showers
bought them M rs cents on the dollar.
Clement had fled before Agert Flynn ard
his men reached tho barber shop, but Stella
frauto, the cotinterieiter- wife, was caught.
and, with her seventeen year-old son. was
locked up. The fraWo woman. accord
ing To the Government officials. l. one of tho
most ~ -iSteut showers" Of tad morey
in the country. She was convicted and
il now serving three and a half wears AZ
Auburn. She has served several previous
terms GlIsepp" Romano, Clements part
uor r. the barber busiiess. was caught later
and seLt TO prison for several years for deal
ing in counterfeit morey.
temei ard Andrea Romano disappeared
They were the real priG,i pals. and the SsCr.,
Service men hunted cvcrywner. for them
bu got no trace until last week
Agent Flynn ten days ago learned some
thing that made him think he might tinu
Cementi in Canada. With one Of his assist
ants he spent several days IN Toronto,
where on Nov. II he caught the counter
fei'sr running bad money plant in "a little
room back of n fruit-tand There Wei"
sci 'ed 1850 in spurious Amer lean nai dplli r.
and $40 in counterfeit Canadian nuLe.
together with a complete outfit of mouths
Clement was turned over 10 IN" Canadian
author tiles and two DAYS af'erward he
began serving a sentence of thirteen wears
in III. Kingston, Ontario. prison. He got
ten years for initiating the coin of King
Edward The other three were thrown in
Il guess that'U hold him for a while"
remarked one Of the Secret Service men
yesterday.
The capture 81 Clement led Agent Flynn
10 send two OF his men 10 Buffalo and Niagara
Falls in search Of Romano, and the arrest
of the latter followed. Romano will have
hearing before "A nited States Commits
siouer in Buffalo and, 1T is expected. will to
brought to New York for trial. Clpreiti
l. one of the most Troublesome counter
fciterS IN the business. When he was in
Ludlow rect Jail in 1895 awaiting trial ON
a Counte"foiting charge a guard caught
linn in the act Of passing a fat roll of bogus
s. hills to "A visitor who. il deycloped
had called on the Italian in iail for the
p,irpoSe of purchasing the bad money
Clement had previously got the counterfeit
bills from another caller