Evening star., 1935-09-22
Counterfeitine
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sands of people, but he was not the
type of man the ordinary person would
| suspect. Always he presented the ap-
! pearance and manners of gentle
man of quality, and every man in the
| bureau when discussing the Adams
| case makes the remark that Adams
also had some unfailing charm by
which he could attract and employ
| the aid of women. These women
! Adams used we're also of a genteel
type and faithful to him even when
he was in his worst plights. 1t was
a woman who interceded for Adams
/ when he was first serving prison
term in Atlanta for counterfeiting and
prevailed upon officials until he was
transferred to Fort Wadsworth Adams
soon made an escape from there and
took up his work of making bad money
again. He was taken again by agents
but escaped even before he was put
in prison. This happened on the day
he was riding in t. police wagon in
company with woman accomplice, a
man named Stadig and other prison.
ers. Both Stadig and Adams were
handcuffed. Since Adams was about
to be parted from his woman friend,
the officers granted him the favor Of
permitting her to sit upon his lap.
Suddenly the police car made swerve
to avoid colliding with an automobile,
the woman reached into the cuff of
Adams trousers, unlocked his and
Stadig's handouts and the two men
made their getaway. More spurious
money, bearing the appearance Of
Adams work. soon appeared. particu-
larly in Chicago. Agents soon located
a woman known to be an associate
of Adams. They followed her one
day when she left her hotel in a cab.
A short distance away she got out of
the cab and transferred to an auto
mobile driven by a man whom the
agents thought looked like Adams.
Adams must have by some intuitive
feeling known agents were following
them. He stepped on the gas and
sped through red lights and other
traffic signals, skidding in the snow
and slush and leading the agents in a
wild chase down Chicago's most active
business street. Agents dared not
shoot here and Adams escaped them.
They later found the car he had been
driving deserted on the street. The
Chicago bureau broadcast descriptions
of Adams and his companion. Finally,
in small town five miles outside of
Milwaukee, Wis, village policeman
recognized him from the broadcast
description, stopped his car and
ordered him under arrest. Adams,
instead, jumped from the car and
started on a run. The officer fired
twice and threatened to shoot to kill
before Adams stopped. Back in Chi
cago he was sentenced to 10 years.
A special squad was organized by
Chief Moran to run down ring of
spurious money-makers, cornered in
four-room bungalow on the road to
Mohonk, N. Y, August 2. The Secret
Service is particularly pleased over
this arrest, not only because it was
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''the most complete counterfeiting
plant ever found in the East" but also
because it involved the making of
bogus 81 bills. which are considered
the most troublesome of counterfeit
bills. They are so easily passed with
out being suspected. According to
Peter A. Rubano, head of the special
detail of United States Secret Service,
who tracked Albania, Ravone and
Coppola after two months of tedious
trailing, $4,000 worth of these bogus
dollars had been circulated about New
York each week. with total amount
of Sl50,000 in circulation. About 80
passers have been arrested by the au-
thorities in the last few weeks. Ra-
vone, one of the three found in the
act of making the money, told agents
that he wa an exbootlegger and joined
the counterfeiting racket because of
hard times" Agents picked up the
trail of the three men through their
habit of coming to the city on week
ends for materials. They followed
them when they started back and
after some difficulty found the hide
out in the woods. For two days and
two nights agents lay in the woods,
observing the gang printing the money.
Those woods, the agents afterward
learned, are infested with copperheads
and rattlesnakes, which, fortunately,
did not molest the agents. When the
agents entered the bungalow, with
pistols drawn, they found 502 COM
plete bills and others partly printed.
However, they found materials suffi-
cient for printing a million S. bills.
The small number of complete bills
was accounted for by the fact that
the ring printed money only on orders
and that they sold the money in bulk
to the leaders of the passers at from Is
cents to 35 cents on the dollar
MUCH counterfeit money has been
passed in Europe, where, because
of the many tourists, it is readily ac-
cepted without questioning. However,
to the contrary, the ordinary American
would just naturally be dubious Of
accepting any kind of foreign money
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