The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-07-28
CONTERFEITERS
PLEAD GUILTY
Sensational Discovery in
Hartford.
Clifford Schroeder and Ode Simp-
son Held For Making
Counterfeit Money.

EARLY Saturday morning great
deal of excitement was aroused in
this city when 1t became known that
Capt. T. K. Halls, of the secret SER
vice department at Indianapolis, and
Deputy U. S. Marshall Charles Mich
OILS, of OwensbOrO, had found a coun-
terfeiting outfit en- the Floating stu
dio, which lis operated by Messrs
Jesse and Clifford Schroater. The
officers arrived here bSfone day Sabur-
day morning and went imnrl sdiately
to the photograph boat, where they
found hte outfit, and placed Jesse
Schnoster under arrest
Btfore the rtain Left that morning
Tor Owensboro Jesse Schroeder was
interviewed by The Republican r.ipre-
sentative and stoutly declared his
Innocence in the matter, and claim
ed his cousin, Clifford, was the one
who did the work. Capt. Halls ex-
pressed his belief of the innocense
OF Jesse Schroeder as did the many
friends of the young man who gath
cred at the sJation before he left
Further details Of the matter which
took place at Greensboro lis told as
follows by an Greensboro paper: ,
Pleading guilty to the charge of
manufacturing and passing bogus
money, Clifford ISchnoster and Odie
Simpson, the two young men arrest
ed in Henderson, waived their ex-
amining trial before Commissioner
j. A. D.an, Jr., Monday morning and
wese sent to Jail in default W $1,000
bonds.
Jesse Schroeter, cousin of Clifford
who was ARRESTED by Marshal Nichols
and Secret Service Agent Halls, ON
the Schroeder floating studio at
Hartford, Saturday morning, was re-
LEAFS ID from the Jail Monday aftsr-
noon ON $500 bond, having retained
the Law finn of Barnett & Smith,
af Hartford as his lawyers
When sen at the Jail Monday
morning, Clifford Schroeder, who
claims to be the principal in the
CONTEMPLATING scheme, told an inter
esting and Thrilling story of how he
had perfected the tools with which
to make the bogus money, and how
he, with Simpson, had passed bad
ten dollar bills in Central City,, Pa
ducah and Henderson.
EXPERIMENTING FOR MONTHS.
Young Schroeder stated THAT he
had been experimenting ON the money
for months, having begun when he
wanted to make one for an exhibit
to be placed in his show case On his
ssudio, and that it was only a few
weeks ago, when his made onls so
near perfect THAT he believed would
pass.
After having made the near ten
dollar bill. Schroeter, according TO
his story made negatives of five and
twenty dollar bills, but was unable
TO get them to tone up ais good as
the Ten dollar bill negative.and he
was afraid TO attempt To pass nOheG
tha five or the twenty dollar bill. Il
made about sixty dollars worth CT
ten dollar bills. and passed fhe first
one dn saloon in Central Olty,"
stalted Schroeter. On Padncah i pass
ed one in a clothing store, and the
bills netked me about $3.50 each In
good silver money" he continued
'.simp," referring TO his confederate.
STATED young Schroeder. KNEW moth
ing Of the money until he passed one
in Henderson. but when I'VE were
aruasbed We had some Of tho money
in our pockets. having eotten almost
broke in having good time"
HAS A WIFE. BUT SHE HAS NO
HUSBAND.
Whm asked id his brother. Emory,
who conducts studio at Hartford.
and 'mo6her. or wife. who resddad on
the floating studio with him. knew
anything about his experiments,
schroater said that they did not and
that the only regnet he had was con-
cum for his wife and one-year-old
hahy girl. Il have wife. but she
has no husband; the baby has
mpnh,ar, but no father" Schroeter
exclaimed after telling the story OF
his unlawful operations. Continuing