The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-05


moments getting his shoes repaired
before returning to the Plank road line
He intercepted STICKY as his car came
down the hill just before 2 o'clock, n
asked how the money was going
stucky said that he hadn't been able
to get rid of 1t, and renewed a sug-
sestion that they meet at the Penn
~sylvania tracks when bis car returned
from Jersey City at 4;35. This date
was entered in the notebook which
Smith had in his pocket when ar
rested.
Meanwhile word had been sent to the
secret service office in New York hy
Commissioner Biselow. and Captain
Carroll had gotten wind of the work
eoing on. Detectives Ebert and Tenn
pleton boarded the car well out on the
meadows on the return trip, and Secret
q Service Detective Henry boarded 1t a
little nearer in.
In Crowded Car.
Smith didn't get on just at the sta
ton, but he took the car on the move
Just as it was approaching Alling street.
He walked right into the crowded car.
and at Mulberry street. on the signal
from Stucky. Ebert and Templeton
h~andcuffed their man before he realized
what was going on.
Did Rushing Business.
Smith is evidently one of many who
are doing a rushing counterfeit busl-
ness. Complaints have reached the
police from many quarters. The niclxels
are pretty fair, but the metal is dark.
They bear the date of 1902. The dimes
are poorly milled. but otherwise look
good. They are pronounced too light
by the Federal officials.
Here is the story Smith told the police
and Mr.. Henry last night:
Last Tuesday-that's April 2Ith-I
was in a Market street saloon, and a
man spoke to me. He showed me a
coin and asked me to take a walk with
him. We went to Military Park and
sat on a bench there. He showed me
some money. and said 1t was perfectly
good. He offered me some of 1t, and
said it wouldn't cost me much. | gave
him 1910 for ten dollars worth of
nickels and dimes. That was all the
money | had with me.
Then I went out to try to sell 1t. |
got a fellow to buy the whole thing for
IS. and that made s1.SO profit for me.
Bought More Coin.
Friday l ran across the man who
sold me the money again and told him
how IL had sold. Then | bought SIS
worth, paying Sc in good money for 1T.
Monday | tried to get rid of this, with
out much success, but yesterday | kept
my date with the conductor thai gave
me away, and as you know sold him
SIS worth Of nickels for $3.50.
"Where the money is made | can't
tell you. | think the ma came from
New York city that sold it to me-"
Smith gave such a wandering de-
scription of the man, who is evidently
the real criminal. that not much hope
of capturing him is entertained. The
story of Smith and his crime is an old
one. He is a type of the man who has
lost his grip.
He is five feet seven inches tall. light
hair and mustache. %shabbily dressed,
and evidently underfed. He has seen
better days and has no police record.
He confessed to serving fifteen days
of a t~hirty-day sentence for getting
into an alteration. but said that he
CAV IN assumed name on that occa-
sion.
lis IN Engineer.
An engineer by profession, Smith has
held good positions with big manufac-
turing establishments. He was born in
Newark thirty-two years ago. He says
ne is the son of Patrick Smith, for
fifty-two years night superintendent OF
the New Jersey Zinc Works. He has
not been on friendly terms with his
father Of late. he told the police.
Its my fault he went on. IT
haven't been home. My old father is
well fixed financially, but I don't know
whether he win go my bail. This will
kin him"
Family impoverished.
The little home at ISL Norfolk street
shows all the signs of hard luck. Mrs.
Smith and the little girl baby give evil
dence of the refinement impressed by
the environment of other days. Smith
says that his trouble began when he
broke his collar-bone, a year ago, and
lost his place.
He has been out of steady employ
ment since, and gradually lost his grip.
Furniture. and even his clothes, have
gone TO buy household supplies.
A Pathetic Scene.
This morning Mrs. Smith and the
little baby came to Commissioners
RissfoW . ohtte' uhueI an ARRANGEMENT
made by Mr.. Henry. There was a
pathetic scene when the three met
Smith seized his baby and sobbed like
a child, while the youngster looked at
him In open-eyed wonder, patting his
hair and lisping, Daddy"
AS evidence against their man, the
Federal authorities hold the 100 nickels
which Stucky contributed and the fifty
two dimes and 102 niekels found In his
pockets by the detectives who searched
him.