The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-12-28
4 GIRLS HOME
In New York Raided and Found
to Be a Counterfeiter Den.
BAND OF BURGLARS.

Detectives Seize Marvellous Appa-
ratus and Silver Pieces that
Defy Every Test Save
that of Acid.
Narvellously perfect apparatus Tor
the manufacture Of counterfeit coin
and spurious silver pieces surprising a
workmanship any ever before prodCc-
ed in this country, are al Police Head
quarters, trophies OF g sensational raid
on 3 coiners' den at NJ. 81 EaSt
Fourth street.
a woman and two men we're captur-
ed afser one Of the prisoners bad
fought the detectives with knife.
The prisoners-to whose number a
fourth was added late Saturday-are
declared by the Secret Service men to
be criminal artists Of the most skilled
type.
The cews OF the raid which occurred
late Saturday, becsme public Monday
in the Tombs Court. It was conducted
quietly and the three prisoners were
placed where none might see them or
learn Of the capture. At the request
Of Chief Flynn, East commander OF
the Secret Service, and the New York
Central cf6ce, the prisoners were re
manded without bail by Magistrate
Onmen. The detectives say there is
DO shadow Of doubt that conviction
will be easy The pres-nt charge OF
suspicious persons is merely technl-
cal.
PRETTY GIRL CAUGHT IN RAID.
The prisoners say they are Frank
Schleiman, thirty, an engineer, OF No.
260 East Fourth street; John Miller,
alias George Williams, thirty i've, OF
No. 13O East Ore Hundred and
Twenty-ffth street; Elizabeth Rue.
Der, twenty, Of No. 50 East Fourth
street, and John Hogmap, twenty
nine, waiter, Of No. / Chatham
Square. Schleinar, Miller and Hof-
man are said to ba ex-conv:cts- Moth
ing Of the Womap's antecedentS IS
known at present She is pretty, vi
vacious girl, who looks anything but
a criminal.
The wonderful perfection Of tie ma
chines used in the manufacture OF the
coin has startled the officers. Halt dol
lars and dimes that ring true and PCS.
sess perfect milling" On the edges,
sought for general tions by the pro
fession," were found in profusion in
the two little rooms where the three
prisoners were cornered.
Mechanism absolutely new in the
work Of counterfeiting specie was
found n the den, and one machine,
which knurled the eeges and gave the
metal discs the same appearance and
''feeln as Uncle Sans product, has
caused the detectives to believe that
one OF all OF the prisoners command
profound knowledge Of mechanics.
NEW CoUNTEREEITTNe ART.
The manner in which the sisvsry
ring" was impaired to the coins is
new to the officers and new to the art
Of coun5erfeiting.
Five hundred and s;xty-ore half,
dollar pieces and s24 dimes, al spurt-
Gus, and of 1904 Gate, were found in
the dep. There also were collections
Of costly silverware-kaivss, forks,
plates, toilet articles, etc.-together
with an expensive gold clock, bundles
cf delicate lace anG other fabrics,
which the dets ctives say were stolen
from Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx
and Queens.
E. ". Williams, Of No. GIL East
Twenty third street, Flatbush, was
called to. Headquarters Saturday and
identif ed by nonograms the gold clock
and some fne lace as his properly.
stolen from bis home on August 81.
More OF the property bears marks and
it is believed the owners OF the silver
and goods will be discovered in few
Gays
SOLD COINS At HALF PRICE.
Detsceive-Se, geants Kinsler and
Duggin, OF the Headquarters squad,
acting on on Secret Service Bureau
tip, made all the arrests. Chief Flynn,
Of the Seccet Service, had accuuula
ted evidence, he said, against Schlei.
man, and the detectives arrested him
at Fourth street and SccJnd avenue.
He vas hustled to Police ReadQuar-
ters, where thirteen counterfeit fifty
cent pieces and q few dozen spurious
dimes were found on him.
Ee weakened under Cross. eXamina-