Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1923-03-01
CROOKS PLANNED
TOFLO0D
WITH BAD MONEY.
Money of all Countries
Made on Printing Press
es Found by Officials
1000 Members of a Gang Maintain
their Headquarters in Basement
in the Italian Quarter of New
York City.

New York Associated Press Dis.
patch of Feb. 21st says:
Secret services operatives have roun.
ded up GA counterfeiters involved in
a plot of international scope whereby
in spurious money has been dumped
into the trading marts of many ma
tions.
A nation wide hunt is being car
ried on, it was discovered for the
capture of 1000 members of a gang
which maintained it's headquarters in
a basement in the Italian quarter of
New York.
Government operatives in Detroit
Chicago, San Francisco and other
large cities, with the details of the
elaborate plot at their finger tips,
are prepared to raid counterfeiters
dens in the foreign quarters of their
cities. Police of South and Central
America and western European ma
tions have been informed of the
haunts of the foreign agents of the
gigantic crime ring.
The plot was barred after the cap
ture last night of three men alleged
by the authorities to be the leaders
of an organization with international
ramifcations and the discovery of the
printing presses which turned out
hundreds of thousands of United
States So, SIS, $40 and $40 bills. Am
,erican silver quarters gold pieces Au
strian kronen, Italian lire, internal
revenue stamps and certificates, post
80, nanors vh;skav and chamnaone
Iott1a SiOt pi fnhoiIs Cd hon,1s dr,r end
1O,'or ,.o nar,,,;fs
'idP Po;ds in Manhattan Rrooklvn
ron% Is,ond citu and New 1arsey 70, o.
.,,lted IN 90 aryoSts i, The Iast 81
- Ia'ns 80 andeJ s,,ccassfuii,, on
a;nh+ aHJ ,non+hs, I search for the ;ntsrna
t;ena, gano Iaaders Joaenh a Palma
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e. I' WV ' "
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mo cold stocFad with bundles Of
M S11o % no6 IN Counterfeit American
O Tnone, toms of thousands Of dollars
r,ortb - nos+aoe stamns whiskev Ia
hels revanne stamns boons coins
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,nomlds @ M and dies and a nnmher If an.
1rav;ny hoards
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,,n ~, T,,nre srrsione1 hefora
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he1d 1i a. a ni bo1i ramn;no frono S25oo 70 to
co. onn Thr1e ware eant to Nawark
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hnrs @ Of tho ho.t craw IN vi Tho S,,no Acct
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;n1,rned as Of tbe New Jarsay ] ] coast for
nearlv : month ~ -
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roia S+roa+ - +ha haort ~ Croen-
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;,,donandant1w ~ , ~ ~ ''' neoaosr wpeiaos
tracts ~ heio~ mainta;nad thro;,ob the
iia;snn officers ~ VII oeN VIC
o Itai;.n ] and Jeyisb co,on;os uoro
said ~ hr. tho e eacrat 'sa sarv;ca ~ a@snts Meo 10
have been the particular victims of