New-York tribune., 1910-12-28
BOGUS MONEY PLANT
SEIZED IN NIGHT RAID
Secret Service Captures Three
Alleged Counterfeiters in
Williamsburg.
big HAUL OF SPURIOUS COIN
First Man Taken Confesses and
Then Leads Detectives to
Place Where Work
Was Done.

Otto T. Klin1e and JoseYh Wishart.
Secret Service detectives. went into
Brooklyn late last night looking for the
plant which has been making thousands
Of counterfeit coins and circulating them
within the last few months and before
their search ended, they say, they found
the unlawful mint, caught two of the
counterfeiters red handed and arrested a
third man.
All three prisoners confessed to the
detectives and were taken to the Adams
street police station. One gave the
name Of Frank Stielberg, and said he
lived at No 161 varet street, Williams
burg, and another described himself as
Jacob Droos, Of No. IS Johnson avenue.
The Secret Service men said the dis
closure Of the identity OF the other pris-
their plans to catch other men con-
nected with the plant.
Klnke and Wishart went to the home
of Stielberg, at No. 161 Varet street and
took the man by surprise. They hunted
around his rooms, and they say they
found thousands of dollars in spurious
coins piled high in the corners. Stiel-
berg, they add, found it difficult to ex
plain having such an unusual amount of
money lying about in confusion, and at
length confessed that he was one Of the
gang who had made it.
My partners are making it around in
Johnson avenue now. I'll take you to
the place if you wish to co. Stielberg
promised the detectives
Stielberg then took the detectives to
No. IS Johnson avenue which proved to
be six story tenement house. The pris-
oner led the way through the hall of the
building and the detective followed him
to the rear
In the back of the yard they came TO
a frame shanty. Stielberg halted sud-
denly, then gave three measured knocks
tectives peered into the room and saw
two men. one of them with ladle filled
with hot metal, which he was about to
pour into a mould.
Seeing the shields the detectives dis
played and hearing what Stielberg had
to say in the Russian tongue. all the
men being Russians, the two men offered
Droos explained that he was the prac--
tical man in the counterfeiting outfit. to-
gether with the other prisoner, whose
name could not be learned, and that
Stielberg was the distributor of the coin
The prisoners told the detectives that
they had no idea of the amount of spuri-
GUS money they had coined since they
began operations in this country.
They admitted that they had made
counterfeit money in Russia, but the
government detectives there had been
hot on their trails, SO they decided to
come to America. The prisoners made
silver" coins from the 1O-cent piece to
the dollar out of block tin.
Financial institutions in this city have
been complaining to the government au-
thorities that counterfeit coins have
been coming into their hands Most of
the coins were found to be in the WILL
iamsburg section of Brooklyn, where
they appeared in elevated railroad sta
tions. The Secret Service men traced
Stielberg through pushcart pedler who
had received spurious coin from the
cCunterfeiter.
1t took two patrol wagons to carry
away all the evidence gathered in the
shanty in Johnson avenue. Among the
counterfeiters' tools and paraphernalia
used in the making of the money were
at least fifty plaster of paris casts. A
furnace in full blast, a bed not used
and $4,000 in spurious money were
found in the mint"