The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-11-25
MONEY PRINTED
WHILE YOU WAIT
Three Austrians Said to Have
Melted 100000 in Year
by This Method.
WELL KNOWN CROOKS
Fed Paper to Machine and
Took Out Real Money
Swindle Is Charged.

New York, Nov. 25.-Three Aus
TRANS, who the secret service men
say are well known international
crooks, and one OF whom they credit
with being the most expert yeSgman
now in this country, were arrested
last night by secret service men and
Brooklyn headquarters detectives In
Charles Staruss's saloon, known as
the Canteen. at 12S Flushing avenue,
Brooklyn, opposite the navy yard. The
charge against the prisoners is at
tempting to swiIdle one Of the secret
service men, who was acting as a
comeon. out of 5000 by the ancient de-
vice OF the magic machine which turns
out money by means OF plates which
convenient friend in the bureau of
printing and engraving at Washington
passes out now and then
Secret Serviceman Klinck. the come
on, had the men in a back room OF the
saloon dickering over the amount he
should invest. At signal three other
secret service men and six city de-
tectives broke into the locked room
and covered the trio with revolvers.
IlS "SiS NahCh W LSioonis
police headquarters and quizzed and
late last night the police said that one
of them had confessed.
The prisoners are Solomon Strom-
laufer, 40 years old, of 1OS zimmerman
avenue, Arverne, who says he runs
hotel at Rockaway Beach in the sum-
mer: Samuel Dresler. as years old, of
1853 Chauncey street, Brooklyn, who is
the one the detectives say is the ex-
pert craftsman. and Boris Dado!sky,
alias Benjamin Green, alias Boris
Brodsky, 40 years DID, who says he
lives at 1876 Boerum street. Williams
burg.
Acting Captain Coughlin of the
Brooklyn detective bureau says that
he believes the three men have clear
ed up 100000 by the same game in
the last year All of them, he says.
are well to do, Podolsky in particular
owning at least five or six parcels of
real estate in Brooklyn.
The secret service men have been
trailing the three prisoners for two
weeks. On Thursday Klinck managed
to get an introduction to one of them
and had them meet him at an Office in
Montague street, where he posed as a
real estate man.
They unfolded the plan by which
they got the mythical plates from the
mythical friend in Washington and
showed him how the machine worked
by running n strip OF white paper
through the motor driven rollers and
pulling perfectly good ten spot out
Of false bottomed drawer in the bot
tom Of the machine. They even made
- ffties. tore one up and threw it
ard gave the other. also a per-
NY ~ccd legal tender bill. to Klinck
z" OIL 4Td see If it didn't pass all
r'-'t Thta he made the date for last
ight. at which time the machine was
~ DC brought and the three men later
arrested and one other were to be
present. The fourth man and the ma
chine did not show up.
An extra charge was made against
the prisoners of violating federal
statute regarding the mutilation of
money. as they had split bills in their
printing of what appeared to be a
bank note on a piece of linen.
Strom,aufer wore about $500 worth
of jewelry when arrested. Dresler.
the secret service men say. was gov
eminent detective of some sort in
Austria at one time. He was particul-
arly apt as an expert on yeggmen and
their methods. When he got in bad
with the police there, they say, he
turned to the other line of work. with
which he was most familiar. Padol.
sky. the detectives say. is fugitive
from Justice. being wanted for a rob-
berry in East New York on Oct 5.
| 1909.
Nine months ago. the police say,
Dresler took butter and egg merch.
ant to Washington on the latter's de.
mand to see the dies passed at the
Bureau OF Printing and Engraving and
framed up a stall that induced the
merchant to invest $4,000 in the
scheme. The proposition made to
Klinck was to sell him $4,000 worth
Of the money as starter for 5000.