The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-05-26
connterteiters Arrested.


Two men were arrested in Burlington
last week, on charge of uttering counter
felt money. They gave their names a
Fred Roy and Groblei Paolo. On Wed
nesday three strange men entered the con
fectionery store of John w. Price, in Bur
lington, and bought five cents worth o
candy, rendering in payment silver dol
lar. After getting their change the mer
| left the store. Miss Julia Price, aged II
years, who waited on the men, at once be
came suspicious of the genuineness Of
the dollar. She showed it to her father,
who decided it was counterfeit.
| Mr.. Price then followed the men and
caught them in Schuyler's bakery, where
they were making another fve-cent pur-
chase. Price nearly lost his quarry there,
through the stupidity of the baker, who
thought his sale was being interfered with
and, in an argument with Price, the lea
der of the trio escaped.
Price finally got his men outside the
bakeshop, and threatened 70 shoot them if
they sought to run, keeping his hand in
his pocket as if carrying revolver, and
/ by bluff and courage took the pair to the
Steamboat Hotel, where he telephoned for
a policeman.
When searched at police headquarters
the two prisoners had no money except
the counterfeit silver dollars found in
their pockets, although they were iden-
titled by several victims as having received
change for their dollars passed at local
stores.
Government secret service men believe
they have now procured evidence which
they expect will enable them to put out of
business the gang of counterfeiters who
have been operating on a wide scale in
this State and Pennsylvania. Several
arrests have already been made in Tren-
ton. Camden and Atlantic City, and the
headquarters of the clique has been located
in Richmond, Philadelphia
Officer Claude Sell, of Burlington, seq
cured a valuable piece of evidence the
night after the two men were locked up.
The evidence obtained by Sell was CON
tanned in two notes which Roy and Paolo
tried to smuggle to their confederates.
Sells suspicious were aroused by the
actions of two strange men who applied
for nights lodging in the city Jail
while Roy and Paolo were prisoners.
Both the strangers had been detected in
an effort to slip into the Jail during a
hearing given the prisoners the morning
after their arrest, and an hour after Sell
had detected Roy in the act of picking the
paddock on his companion s cell, which he
own cell.
1t is Sells duty to liberate the dodgers
from the Jail every morning, and his sus-
picions, further aroused by questions as
to his knowledge of the Italian language
asked him by one of the prisoners, he de-
termined to keep his eyes open.
Secreting himself in a dark corner in the
corridor, out of sight of the men in the
cells, he saw Roy slip roll of papers to
one of the strange men as the latter was
on his way to the street, giving whisper
ed direction that it should be delivered to
an address in Beverly.
Sell waiting until the strangers had
reached the street, arrested them and took
them to Police Headquarters, where they
were searched and the two notes found
and Immediately turned over to Govern
ment Detectives Tate and Snowden.
Interpreted, the letters were found to
have been written to members of the allie
ged counterfeiting band, and information
they contained put several Federal agents
upon the trail of the different clues. Sew
eral arrests have been made, and the Fed
eral authorities, who have officially COM
mended Sell for his clever work, expect to
round up the entire gang.