New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10
Snowman Sure
He Was Swindled
By BILL Casket"
Man with the Box Accused
of Giving Only Paper in
Return for $4,000

Max Wax spent last night in Police
Headquarters with his mysterious
box. Before he gets chance to write
his projected motion picture serial
around il, he will have BY explain to the
satisfaction of the police why Frank
Sternberg, proprietor of trained dog
vaudeville show. insists that he was
swindled out of $4,000 by that same
casket.
Such an accusation is all nonsense,
according to Wax, who made this state
ment when Detectives Finan, Maher and
MCGEE arrested him at 102 East Elev-
enth Street, yesterday.
The casket has electric lights on its
sides and switches at both ends, and
Cooper-Hewett tube that glows, and
wheels that turn, when the power is
on, inside. But it never was used as
the counterfeiting machine, into which
Mr.. Sternberg says he fed two new
81 900 bills, and received on January 26
a package of tissue paper for his trust
in human nature.
"Plot for a Movie"
"No, indeed says Wax, 81 just made
it so that l could write moving pic
ure story around it,"
The police then submitted this plot
for the screen drama, shamelessly
plagiarizing the tale told by Sternberg
Sternberg, q poor but avaricious dog
show manager, is living in harmony
with his canine artists at West Fifty
second Street. Enter the Man with the
Box-really, he explains to Frank, the
originator of a machine which Will
food the United States with spurious
81 900 bills that never can be detected.
The man with the box is German. In
fact, he explains, he is the German who
conquered Belgium. In bank in Brus-
sells he found $4,000 United States
currency in $1,000 bills. These were
confiscated by the Kaiser, but he was
thoughtful enough TO write down the
serial numbers before they left his pos
session.
Easy to Counterfeit
Here is the plot: The Kaiser can't
spend them until inc MOI III bCi man
LLOYD resumes regular service. The
United States does not know that the
missing $4,000 is in the jeans OF
William Hohenzollern. Therefore, what
is easier than to make counterfelts,
with the serial numbers Of the missing
bills?
The box is set upon the table, plug
is screwed into nearby electric
bracket. the lights glow, the wheels
turn. the operator inserts S2 Dill.
Presently two come out. Both look gen,
uine. Sternberg registers surprise and
envy.
The scene now shifts to room in
the St. Paul Hotel, Columbus Avenue
and Sixtieth Street. Sternberg enters
with two 81 900 bills. The machine Is
cranked up again. Presently the oper-
stor draws out a package and HANDS IL
10 Sternberg. Don't open it until 10,
morrow" he warns, cor you'll spoil
10000"
Short flashes then show Sternberg
mourning over the high cost Of tissue
paper, Stcrnberg telling his tale OF woe
70 the police, and detectives discover
ing the trunk Of the fugitive man WIN
the box and his arrest.
The scenario might end with the de-
tectives trailing the trunk to East
Eleventh Street and there arresting the
man with the box on "A charge OF grand
larceny. Later the man might be CON
fronted with Sternberg, as the poice
hone that Wax will be to-day, while
Sternberg RECEIVERS his $4,000.