The sun., 1910-12-08

Cauxht when Hc Tried 70 seil 500 More
to Secret service Man Ter aRJS
spelling Treasury 'rreasnrg" Was
the Italian EngraverS Only Error.
There's an engraver In Leghorn. Italy,
who when he has learned that the English
word treasury is not spelled -t-r-e-a-s-n-
r-g- will bs able to turn out United States
counterfeit five dollar bills unless some
thing happens TO him which even q
drug store cashier might be pardoned
for handing To you IA something just
as good Maybe you have one OF them
now; five hundred OF the bank notes wsre
unloaded on New York about a month
Ago. according Co the local secret service
men. who were the cause yesterday of
having "A boss coal stoker Oh an italian
ship placed in the Tombs. charged with
trying tn sell 500 moro of the bills to
Federal agent FOR ss76 on Tuesday night
in the back room of q saloon at Broad
way and Bl-ecker street
Just about month ago tho Federal
authoritis-a heard 1t the arrival In town
of the first batch q .he hest made co,inter-
fcits that the secret service men have
s-en in many years The counterfeit
of the portrait of the former President
on the note. bears signatures OF the pre~t-
dent and the cashier of the Mechanics
and Metals bank. which look real and
which have passed muster in various
New York banks and business houses.
The quality Of the paper. the scroll
work the series numbers win pass for
'he real thing But the engraver In
italy forgot one small matter which
looked large when q bill was placed under
y rnaEnifying glass at one Of the banks.
Fellow tho registrars name on the face
e the bill in minute lettering is the mis-
=pelled word .rreasnrg The red and
hlue strands of silk that we'll horn bills
from Washing gton show were copied 40
carefully with ink that they appeared
also to be real until one tore the bill across
the strand
Secret service men who started after
the counterfeitsrs noted that the coming
- rha bill 20 town was simultaneous with
rhe arrival here month ago OF ths
steamer Italia Of the Anchor Line The
agents placed the crew of the Italia on
-beir SUSPECTED li%' and when she next
came into port they placed some one
down in the stokehole whose business
Il xas to look about and Ee, acquainted
The banks In the meantim. were on
m. looknut for the bad bills and taking
them up In the last week 20 hank
Official. have kept the telephones Of fhe
local secret service men busy as they
called up 10 saw that they had bagged
another n the had notes BEFORE put |
ting them in circulation the distributors |
had taken care TO crumpl- them and cover |
them with CRIME.
IL wa avident ,h- notes had been !
printed from engraved plates. The bed !
aral agents got their heads together and ,
f.it"r among the American crooks now
at large with skill enough to turn out 90 /
clever a piece Of work. so Richard !
Taylor. head Of the local secret service,
r.aaoued that the notes probably had
been made in I,a ay and were being brought
10 this country for distribution 10y some
one working On the crew of an Italian ,
ship, u
Mediterranean last SUNDAY the work of /
Tint un Tuesday night an agent had ar ,
ranged a meeting with stoksr. t.sare
Paul.tti 40 years old Ia take place in Z
vhe back roou of III. saloon at Blaeoker !
street and Broadway The agent repre- /
s.nt.d himself 10 the stoksr an a private !
banker and offered 10 buy "a bundle of
the had money The agents charge
that Paol-ttl came to the saloon with
s. 500 IN the sS counterfeit bills
The agent agreed Ia take over thus roll
at once and y,ay IN return 1915. Ali this
being agreeable. the agent saws that IA
they sai in the back rooms Paoletti told
him all about the engraving 81 the p,ate
hv an artist at i.lvornn. Who the agent
says n" was informed. got l,OG francs
fer IN" Jub.
Pa",sit and III" agent had got ihls
far When down toward their table sNooped
thief I lylor and some ~ hl= men who hal
s,aen watching the deal unseen. The
arrest that followed i'ruk. Paolci'i all up
only moment before hsdn'- he -privat.
banker opprelt" him told PHol,ti IN
excellent Italian tnat h.nceforth tn.
banker would buy ~ all the had money
tn st"ker coula bring 10 him from Ius-
cauy7
Paolntti was talon Ia H~sd1 va rters for /
tn. night and was arraIgned Yesterday ,
before tpiIed States Commissioner