Evening star., 1915-02-28

found that some one was pushing the
queer" with the bookmakers. Flynn
money in one of the stands for
three days before one of the men with
the bad money appeared. He shadowed
the man. and eventually captured him
and four associates. From them he
learned that the maker OF the counter
feits was one Liberman, alias John
Davis. alias Schmidt. who worked In
London. He was not able to get
Schmidt.
Five years later some English bank
notes. presented at . bank on the Bow
cry. were sus-
English Bank Notes pected of being
Arouse Suspicion. Piyna rpuaa',,s,' rs. s..,n asn
called into the case. They were traced
again to Schmidt. but that individual
escaped. Another series Of years pass
ed and one day a red-whiskered little
man presented himself At Scotland Yard
and stated that he know all about q
issue that had been trou-
bling England. He wanted to confess
claim immunity and the reward of
$1,000. These conditions being granted
he said that he had made the money,
but that his associates had double
crossed him and that he would there
fore expose them.
A condition to Schmidrs immunity
was that he return to Berlin. Of which
city no was q native, and that he never
again live In England. During this
In England. Secret Service Agent Flynn
went to London to testify as to the
notes that had been passed in America
and there he saw Schmidt.
service. through it's careful supervision
OF the sources of supply of tho mate
rails that are used In making spurious
money. found that quantities OF such
materials were being sent to q small
New England town. They were traced
to a certain house. Flynn himself raid
ed this house and the first man he
caught was the little German with the
red beard. And SO the star interna-
tional counterfeiter found his way into
an American prison.
Ono morning q pretty. little Italian
girl tripped into q fruit store ON the
west side in New
UnerS Told Coin York. made a pur-
at Fruit Store. sse .sn.dn,,.o anu oner.a eo,d
piece In payment. policeman hap
SO pretty and not at all because he
suspected the coin. he asked her where
she got the gold piece. She became
confused and embarrassed to such an
extent that the policeman grew suspi-
cious and called In a secret service
man to pass upon the money. 1t was
found to be counterfeit. The girls
father was a jeweler and had made
gold
escaped conviction. however, because
the money had not actually been pass
ed.
But the secret service holds that once
a man has made piece Of bad money
that has had any degree of success he
Is sure to do it again. 1t therefore kept
track of the Italian Jeweler.
1t was three years later that counter
Brooklyn. They were excellent repro
ductions, but had one defect. The edges
were a bit rounded instead of being at
exact right angles with the sides. One
of these coins. for instance. would mol
stand on its edge. The same defect
had existed in the ten-dollar gold piecs
that had been made by the 5eweler
three years earlier. This was the clew
that led to the apprehension of the Old
Italian and his beautiful daughter. IL
passing the money Both father and
daughter went to the penitentiary.
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The secret service often dnds that
other crimes dovetail into counterfeit
ing It was but In
Black Hand Gang cidental to a cam
paign against coun-
sent 70 fIlson. terfeiters, for in
stance. that the greatest organization
for Black Hand extortion that the ma
tion has ever known was broken up.
Giusseppi Morello. the man with the
manned hand, was the chief Of this
gang. Lupo the Wolf was his active
outside man. Both of these men. to-
gether with twenty-five of their asso-
ciates, are now serving time at At
lanta. While local authorities in many
cities have succeeded in convtcttng
Black Handlers. the organization was
never rooted out until the secret serv-
ice found that 1t was engaged in coun-
terfeiting as well, and secured whole
sale convictions on this score. That
was four years ago. and little has been
heard of Black Hand outrages since.
The theory of the secret service IL
that the man who does counterfeittng
is a most deliberate violator OF the
law. He does not commit his crime
under an impulse or the stress OF a
temporary need. He goes about II with
great forethought, and takes months or
wears in working out his plans. He has
avery opportunity to consider and turn
hack When the crime is actually conf
mitted, there are no mitigating CIR
cumstances. Therefore. the counter
feiters are constantly watched ana
hunted without mercy by the govern
ment's best detectives.