Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-11-12
BY
CLEVER DEVICE

Because he wanted to duplicate his
savings In a less laborious manner
than that in which he gained the
original SUM was the cause OF the
bank account Of Ignatz Eggert, Jack
son Terrace. OF Metuchen road, be-
ing reduced 800 and hts ~picketbook
being diminished by $50. The cause
Of the whole trouble was a little ma
chine that was supposed to make du-
plicate bills Of all the dollar green
backs Eggert could rake together.
Last Wednesday he was approach
ed by two men at his home who
asked him for direction to Perth Am
boy. He told them but still they
continued to talk, and in such a
friendly manner that he was attract
ed to the strangers. Finally n be
came so confidential with Eggert that
he at last divulged the real reason
for their presence. He said they were
looking for a man who lived on the
outskirts of Perth Amboy who had
promised to invest several hundred
dollars in an enterprise by which he
would get rich quick. He adroitly
mentioned that if anyone would put
up the money and save their hunting
up this other man that, that man
would share with them the proceeds
of a scheme.
Eggert wanted to get rich and said
he would think the matter over and
let them know the next day. The
strangers came back Thursday and
found their victim in a state Of glee
ocer the plan. He promised to stake
his deed to his home for which he
had saved his earnings for years,
and the next day draw from a Perth
Amboy bank 800 to which he would
add $50 cash he already had on hand.
Friday the men came back and
found Eggert eagerly waiting for
them with $50 dollar bills, as the
stipulation was that the machine
could only duplicate one dollar notes.
They demonstrated the counterfeit
ing outfit to their patron, dexterously
taking one of their victims bills and
putting 1t through a slit at the OPP
and by turning a small windlass two
n dollar bills came out at the rear
end of the apparatus. Eggert was
so delighted that he did not stop to
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Identical, and after dumping his
whole supply of bills in the machine,
the men suddenly said they. had a
pressing engagement, but they would
call the next day, asking their host
where they could hide the apparatus
till their return. While Eggert was
looking for a secluded place the men
quietly and quickly extracted the
greenbacks.
Eggere came back into the roo
and said he knew a dark closet in
which the apparatus could be hidden,
and carried the empty Golfer to that
place, thinking it still contained his
$50 dollar bills.
Eggert lives alone, and when he
got in bed that night he could not
rest, his mind continually turning to
that supposedly counterfeiting box.
and how he might go to prison II it
were found in his home. He deter
mined to put the machine out of
doors and hastily throwing some
clothes about him, started to carry
the box to a hiding place in the back
yard, but first he opened the top to
keep the money more safely in the
house. To his surprise the bax con-
tanned no greenbacks, only a few
rollers, etc.
1t dawned upon him that he had
been tricked, and that the machine
was not a c~ounterfit money machine.
but an ordinary box. or course the
strangers did not return, and Egg
CERT did not report the matter to the
police through fear or some other
cause. but still he is out Just $50
dollar bills.
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