Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-05-14
Two Fellow Workers Give Po-
lice the Tip Which Led to
His Arrest.
BOLLSCHWEILER NOTIFIED
Claim Suspect Made Silver
Money in Plant; Is Held
at Police Station.

Charged with making counterfeit
money Michael Batchur, thirty-three
years old, was arrested as he was
leaw'og the plant of the American
Smelling & Refining Company, where
he is employed, at 6 o'clock last night
by Detective Sergeant Huff and
Patrolman Gutowski. The man was
held In the lookup last night, and
this morning United States Marshal
Bollschweiler was notified of the
case. The marshal Immediately
communicated with the governments 8
branch of the secret service in New
| York.
: United States Secret Service In
spector M. Manasse, of the New York
| branch Of the Treasury Department
arrived in the city shortly after II
o'clock this morning and went over
the evidence against the accused
The fifty-cent piece, the secret serv-
ice man was inclined to believe, was
genuine and that it had become dis
torted and made imperfect probably
! in the efforts of the alleged counter
| lGllct 10 UldhS COln uOulu. III
company with U. S. Marshal Bollsch-
weller, the secret service man, De-
| tective Sergeant Huff and Patrolman
| Gutowski the man was taken to New
(, Brunswick, the party leaving here
| about 1880 O'Clock this afternoon,
for arraignment before United States
! Commissioner Rice, of the county
seat. The mans wife and two daugh-
| ters, between four and seven years
, old, visited him at the police station
and followed him to the trolley car
| The exposition of the operations
/ of the alleged counterfeiter were dis
closed by two fellow countrymen of
the Jailed man. They reported to
| Chief of Police Burke yesterday af-
| ternoon that Batchur was making
! bogus coin. They gave their names
as John Bremak and Anthony Malask
and used to board with the accused
man. 1t seems that they "squealed"
on their former friend because they
were discharged from the plant of
| the smelling company, where Batchur
| is sub-foreman. They declare that
when they refused to raise 5000 for
the mar for the given purpose of
aiding in the purchase of house
and lot that he discharged them from
their jobs at the smelter works.
Just before Batchur was arrested,
in company with James e Gallagher,
plant detective, Detective Sergeant
Huff and the patrolman searched the
locker of the man, where his coat
and hat were kept. In snug cor
ner Of the compartment they fished
~ ha h in o.
such receptacles often used by for
eigners in carrying money. The bag
was unusually heavy for its size,
and bore pieces of lead in shape of
nickles, dimes and quarters, seeming
in the course of finishing. They were
crude, and none bore finishing
touches. There were a dozen or
more pieces of the lead shaped into
sizes resembling specie as stated
above. Most of the pieces look as if
they were only used in experimenting
and the Impressions are engraved
instead of raised as on genuine
money. This has led to the belief
that the man had impressed the sur
face of a nickel on flexible lead
pieces, as the bogus five cent pieces
looked too crude to have been made
III mould.
However, the most damaging evil
dence which has been brought against
the man is in the testimony of one of
the witnesses accusing him, who
turned over to the police a half-dol-
lar almost identical with the genu-
inc money. Nearly a perfect likeness
III certain similarities. This the man
declares Batchur made and gave to
them to pass.
The fifty-cent piece, Batchur de-
clares is genuine, and it's suspicious
characteristics were made through its
contact with flames, when it was &C
cidentally dropped into a fireplace at
his home. However, the police do
not believe that flames would have
brought about the changes in the
coin which is asserted by Batchur In
the first place, the edges of the al
legged ffty-cent piece are still CORFU
gated, though the thickness of the
coin is just about two-thirds of the
original. 1t is declared by the police
that II the fire had reduced the
thickness it would have certainly
melted the edges. Another counter
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