The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-16
MISSING: ONE JUDAS SHEKEL.
OWNER SAYS 4 ROTHSCHILD Of
FERED S22.OO FOR IT.
Also Lost C0in Struck in Honor oi
Adam aud Eve and Other Coins That
Date Back Iar Earlier Than Coinage
Owner Bought FIN NJ Auctions

One Of those fatcful pieces Of silver paid
to Judas Iscariot for betraying Christ
by tradition any piece Of them entails eyll
fortune upon its possessor-wa not exactly
in evidence In the West Side police court
yesterday, because the man who said he
had owned il said it had been stolen from
him; but he impaired tho interesting infor-
nation that there are four OF the pieces
still upon earth. He's in the automobile
business himself at 200 West Thirty sixth
street. and his name is Max Fisher
Mrs. Mary Wallmer Of PA East Forty
second street vas arraigned charged with
stealing rare coins from Mr. Fisher>-S6o, 900
worth. as Mr.. Fisher put it, but only about
fifty or sixty coins in all. Detectives Tun-
ney and Ceilings Of the West Thirty-seventh
street station arrested her yesterday morn.
ing as she was preparing to leave New
York
Among the stolen coins, Fisher said was
silver shekel one of the original thirty.
He saws that s22 COO was offered TO him for
this coin by one of the Rothschilds, but he
refused the offer and went on handling
automobiles. Other rare coins that he says
were stolen from him are a coin bearing the
heads Of Adam and Eve, with an apple be-
tween, over 5000 years old and possibly
minted on Ararat. since coinage in ascer-
tanned mints Is onlv about 1900 years old;
another bearing the heads Of Jupiter and
Venus, 1000 years of age. and very likely
product of the Olympian Treasury Depart
ment and a coin bearing the image of
Diana. bunting, over 3. 100 years old, which
does not antedate the moon, bus paralyzes
boz
is one struck by Pope Gregory--he doesn't
know which Gregory while several rea-
sonable coins OF the eleventh, twelfth and
thirteenth centuries are missing Fisher
does not pretend to know the history of his
coins, or when or 10y whom they were struck.
He says he got them at coin auctions.
Fisher occupies three rear rooms above
the automobile place. He lives alone. is
bachelor and he's few acquaintancee.
On Saturday last he advertised for woman
70 take cure Of his apartments. Mrs.
Nallmer applied for the place on Sunday.
Fisher says while she was present in hie
room he took from his bureau the small
inlaid chest, in which he kept the coins,
and took out q scarpn.
On Tuesday afternoon he saw her in front
of his place. He went away IN an auto
mobile and returned at . O'Clock. The
door was open and his coin box was gone.
He found the box IN the bathroom. broken
open. and beside it lay a chisel and four
skeleton keys.
Yesterday morning he complained to the
police and they arrested Mr. Wallmer.
Both she and Fisher speak German. They
had long pow WOW, and Fisher says she
admitted taking the CONS. The police say
the same thing. Later she denied any
knowledge OF the coins, saying thet she
was frightened and said anything to avoid
arrest. Magistrate Barlow held her under
81 coo for examination to-day. She had
bought ticket for Greenwich Conn,
and shipped two trunks and hamper
there. The trunks are detained at Green
wich by the Greenwich police.