The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-05
John Smith Arrested
Here Makes Confession
to Police.
CONDUCTORS BOUGHT
HIS SPURIOUS COINS
Had lOz Queer Nickels and 81
Phony Dimes When Taken
Into Custody.

'"r affesf OF John smith. Of ISL 7
Norfoik street, the authorities befiex.
'ney have uncovered the trail that ms.
lead to big counterfeisinx c.fah.s.z.
ment.. smith + alleged 20 b.x~ h~.. :.
'he business of disposIng Of .nur,.-.
money here Just a week, ana IN -.
'n'e ne ~ said to have underf,ker 70
se" SO In counterfeit dimes and .f~k-
CHS principally to trolley ear rond...4z
o's' "hom he induced to buy HIS s.~re~..
s''as' SO that they could make r....
"s giving the bad coin TO pa@.cpxer- :.
making change.
After a day of folloxing -.
.e "ofhsa along the Plank road trolIex
nhe' endeavoring to drum up trads
s'lioiis the conductors, he was arrasfes
on car 1865 yesterday afternoon ~,
aiter he boarded it, at 4:s5 o'clocl 80,
or the Pennsylvania railroad fracss i,
Market street. Sergeants Josenb
Ebert and William II. Teunleton 4,
'ne detective bureau. made the arrest
United States Secret Service Detcef-
I'VE John J. Henry. who had been af,x,.2
/ the man all day. was on the car 80
"iieh Inc arrest was made went wifh
me prisoner TO headquarters what4
Saptaln OF Detectives Carroll had MA.
siaeeo as a suspect pending am exat,,i-
nation On his person we're fn,,,,.,
nity-tWo counterfeit dimes ana 10s hn.s
nickels Besides that, he had abo,,t -
in real money. ''''''' ! Z +
Arraisued Teds..
ms morning Smith was arfaie ,.ss,-
United States Commissioners
~ a'a'hel r. Bigelow sfd fofma,5.
1,iaisso Dy Secret Service Dstecttxe
-.ea'is WIN violating sections 545s and
p-'o Of the Federal statutes Having
- engaged III disposing Of some sil-
eo'i.s' there is a double charge
ss,a ssaailse nm that of dealing IN counter
s'naii CONS and that Of handlins
counterfeit silver money ..~ f-a-,ss.s.
sioner Bigelow set Friday ,o,,,,,i,,s 8,
10 O'Clock for exa aT1;nation ~ ne s,.s4
oner at his office. 1877 Marlzet st,.ns1.
He committed him 10 the e5,,,nt,- -
IN default Of s2.ee0 bail u,ea !, ..,,,1s
violation Of section 5457 is nunis,,a5sl<
by imprisonment for a ma xir,,,,,,, =
Ten years and a fine of 5000 ana ~,
iation OF section 545s is p,lnisheb,e =,
three years Imprisonment and f5n& ),
S2,ooo. As Smith confesses fo ri,iit -,
oer both be is subject to 4 heavy nsns
atty - psns
Conductor Helped in Arrest.
William Stucky. conductor No. 2ssl
on the Plank road line. is the NAV
who IS primarily responsible for t4,a
arrest Of Smith. Under an Arrange
naent made with a reporter for th,x
newspaper Stucly. who had been an
preached by Smith on Mondav. ,nade
date 10 inspect the counterfeit money
yesterday morning.
Smith was to board the eastzbn,,,,d
Plank road car run by Stuckv al Ire
pennsylvania railroad-s Market street
station at S:15 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. He feared that he might be a.
tected and let the car pass on Il . dover
trip. leading StuclSy and the reporter
to believe that the date was off. On
the up trip. however he boarded tbs
car at the point agreed upon and "
once engaged the conductor in cnn
versation
The Decoy Deal.
LET me have fifty cents worth Of
the nioiels and I will sec how they
CO." said Stucky
You'll have To take $3.50 worth or
my nickels for $3.50 was Smiths reply
Stucky was a bit frightened at the
situation confronting him, bur he nod
ded assent and arranging s2.50 ia his
hand dropped It to his side. Smith
took II and handed back four round
packages, each containing twenty five
counterfeit five-oent pieces. The car
was approaching Belmont avenue on
Springfield avenue at that time, and
Smith swung off in the middle OF the
block
He mingled with the crowd a mo-
ment and then crossed TO the south
east corner of belmont avenue and
Springfield avenues. where he counted
his coin and rearranged some or the
rolls. He boarded a Plank road car
that came down the nill but within
few seconds left it, He repeated tisis
and then finally climbed onto car ls97
He remained on this and went to Jer4
sey City He denies that he disposed
of any more coin then.
He returned at 1:20 IN the afternoon
and going to a shoemaker's spent a few