The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 16, 1954, Page 2

: | 54 cases e-i semested a Among U. S families with In- |pleted 27,153 cases involving checks done. Thank you very much for the S¢s. 7 per cent own worth $2,187,367.65. The Secret Ser- first step in getting me set, Of the cases which were prsecut-! io arrested 2.58 persons for straight.” eee ae ae. * Rotenscy ‘agave. dt Pays To ADVERTISE In The Bl LLS RKS Cc LOS E re) j 953 “ Sicanadpe eee . - ey a Govern. gated 2,779 years, with an addi- Citizen—Use Its Columns Freely In Chicago, Illinois, William Fred ment for the amount of the check tional 2,814 years suspended oF Pro- Neumann, 64, boasted that when he stole. bated. BLACK MILES j 7 7 n ‘of December 31, the Secret gents apprehended four men on De-|capture said he had studied the mistake of picking an honest man'not in prison he could make a tax- Caution Stressed Pet still had 12,805 eases on PASSION PLAY Secret Service cember 30 and seized plates for'Secret Service material on the de-\as their prey. He pretended to be free income of $20,000 a year by Chief Baughman again stressed resti Chief Lake Wales Amphitheatre Chief Makes a : hak see Coe | sine ee counterfeit $5, $10 and $20 notes. tection of counterfeit money as a interested in their proposition then|stealing checks of all kinds, In one the need for storekeepers to use Baughman said. ‘. jOne of the quartette owned a/part of his school's Problems of notified the Secret Service. Ar-jinstance he stole a Government caution in cashing Government Report On His \plumbing shop which appeared to Democracy class. The three men rests resulted and cheap chemi- check worth $967.46, forged for the\checks for strangers. “The care- A moraing commuter train be- jhave become the workship for the are now awaiting trial. cals and blank paper in “bank- endorsement, and went to a Sears- lessness with which some business je ‘Sheffield, England, and Lon- A ents’ Work jcounterfeiting operation. | Green Goods Scheme roll” form were seized. The men|Roebuck store where he spent con- men cash checks is sometimes in- ee g | pene Tae oe paepraganhang, The perennial “green goods” aeutied melt guilt, oe Baugh- reaping rae and mse cree be ald. «ay (Captured 15 plants for manu- game was played and lost by Man said, and were tui over to|ing television sets. was “A few weeks ago a woman in pereerprelh wl preceptor facture of counterfeit bills, arrest- pwindlere in Cleveland and New New York Police for prosecution. pecially interested in a console Chicago received a formal ‘Notice © ™ marl lost don runs more than 106 miles .in 97 minutes, a speed of more than fles an hour. i Italian- E ————————— ed 199 persons for counterfeiting) York City. The green goods scheme! Equipment Dumped costing $407.50, but he left without of Discontinuance of Alloimett ——— | to U. E. Baughman, Chief of the offenses, and seized $359,658.43 in : “ornia. 9 DUYiNE it. Pay.’ This is a form printed on RNITURE SPECIALS | U. S. Secret Service, in a review Of countertei in has been used for years to cheat’ In San Francisco, California, a buying y FURNITU | it bills and coins. Of this the gullible who watch fake “‘scien- counterfeiter named Albert Snead,| He returned the next day and cardboard, perforated like a Gov- the activities of his agents during amount, $190,163.82 was captured tists” Inner Spring et duplicate money before their.who feared ‘ agreed to buy the set for cash if ernment check. Its purpose was _ $ 4.50) 4 er {before it could be put into circula- very po ge tert toes aay les trail, chet a Me ee cr line, siote would. guarentee imine-lmnarely to notify the sddrasese thet pyar ro — pen American The wave of counterfeiting be-ition. The balance of $169,494.61 waslings in a “money-making ma-jing equipment into the sea cng diate delivery. The store promptly|she would no longer receive allot-/4 Pee. : | gan just before Christmas when 5, ced in retail stores. Ichine.” fled to Colorado feeling reasonably cashed the check, gave Neumann ment checks in the amount of EISNER FURNITURE CO. | Restaurani pore I ress ane eertep gens bse a J. Aylward was ar-| In Cleveland a man reported to safe. He neglected to consider that|the balance of $359.96, and discov- $137.10. The women, believing the poinciana Center Tel. 246951) fe a rest at | , “4 Paso, Texas, forthe Secret Service that he hadithe incriminati vi jered the crime only after they notice to be a check, took it to passed on retail storekeepers in| -ounterfeiting he said he never in- heen approached by “eipetented eee ieee at “ard —— were unable to deliver the set to the proprietor of a Chicago tavern, — H oa many sections of the spr ae tended to pass the $80,000 worth a jeweler, who offered him a| When the tide receded, his plates, |the fictitious address he gave. who had her endorse it and then STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE! Steaks of the bogus notes are = extenent of partially-printed $5 bills which|chance “to make a fortune.” Sec-|press and other materials were] | Caught By Coincidence jpaid her $137.10 in cash. When the h workmanship, Chief Baughman /pecij,) agents seized, with his'ret Service agents and Clevelandjhigh and dry and were recovered| Neumann was trapped by coin-‘@Vern owner took the check to his Triump! *Cho S we ie Ot ne eae ipioe the heck of iu poise concealed themselves in the/by the Secret Service, who hadicidence. He stole a commercial Dank to deposit, he was surprised) Costes Pp Descriptions of ti rats aks and making them for the heck of it,”|victim’s home and watched while|been closing in on Snead. Agentsicheck drawn by Swift and Com.|to find it was worthless. | ane ioe renee pe" f es other He insisted. jLukan demonstrated his greén-idescended upon his home at Santalpany, Chicago, and made the mis-| Victims Are Careless | Mill Seafoods agents were al oy cer down|. The faces of the five were of|goods machine, a fancy box rig-\Cruz only to find that Snead had|take of asking Swift and Company, Another obstacle in Secret Ser- at enforcement work to crac superior quality. They were printed! ged with lights, batteries and coils.|left for parts unknown with histo cash the check. vice forgery investigations is lack ALL GROCERS * on the counterfeiters. jfour to a sheet. Agents raided the After the demonstration Lukan was'wife and his former wife. | The cashier recognized the of observation by victims, Chief I izza California Action _ |plant before any attempt was arrested. He pleaded guilty and) A neighbor recalled a conversa- payee’s name as that of a girl in Baughman pointed out. His agents Two suspects kept under surveil- made to print the backs. Aylward/was sentenced to serve 15 months tion in which Snead mentioned Las|her own office. She asked the girl in Little Rock, Arkansas, recently, lance since Christmas were arrest- was convicted and given a 10-year|in a Federal prison. |Vegas, Nevada. Agents sped tolif the man at the window was her traced six forged checks, all cash-| ed January 20 in San Gabriel, Cal- prison sentence. New York Case \Las Vegas, canvassed motels, and Your Grocer SELLS That Good) ’ father. The girl said he was aed by a short man wearing a/ ifornia, for'making bogus $20 notes, Program Pays Off | The New York case centered learned that the trio had gone on| stranger. Peet police were sum- bright blue jockey cap. ST. ‘AR * BRAND u S the first of which appeared in cir-/ The “Know Your Money” pro-/around an old offender whose pre- to Denver. In Denver, other agents|moned, questioned Neumann, and| Agents finally ‘arrested Henry culation December 21 in Los Ange-| gram of the Secret Service paid off vious 14 arrests had compelled |quickly located Snead and the wo-lfound on his person a Government Johnson, 22, wearing the blue caj AMERI wore COFFEE 218 Duval St. —TRY A POUND TODAY — les. Agents seized cameras, pres- in at least one case near Pitts-\him to spend most of his life be--men in a motor court and took|check for $1.25 and two other com-|Johnson was well-known to the six| ses, inks and paper just as the/burgh, Pennsylvania, when a highjhind bars, according to the Secret them into custody. |mercial checks. ‘persons from whom he had stolen counterfeiters were preparing to schol boy working as a clerk de- Service. | Odd Marriage Setup ‘They called the Secret Service, the checks while he visited in their move to another location. Both|tected a counterfeit $10 note after) Blessed with a cherubic face, he| Snead’s fingertips were scarred|who leamed that since Neumann homes, but none of the six men-| men are held under $10,000 Wail it was passed by one of three men'went into partnership with another|and agents learned that he hadihad been released from Leaven-\tioned him when agents asked if|[r awaiting trial. in a car. old-time confidence man. The lat- performed a surgical operation on| worth penitentiary on July 30, 1952,'they knew a man of his descrip. | ' Two other men accused of being’ The boy called to another clerk ter’s job was to spot a prosperous his hands to hide the fact that he|he had stolen and forged 125 Gov.|tion. Johnson was sentenced to) responsible | for manufacturing to get the license number of the merchant in New York's Harlem|had a previous criminal record.\ernment checks and about 900 com- serve two years. counterfeit $5 and $10 bills were automobile, which bore an Indiana'and convince him that it was pos-|He had transposed the top cush-\mercial checks. | Chief Baughman reported the ar-|fj arrested Januay 4 in San Francis. tag. The Secret Service was noti-|sible to make two dollar bills ions of skin from the right to the; Neumann pleased guilty in Chi-rest of four men at Peoria, Ili-}) co after some of the counterfeits fied, the car was traced, and with|where there was only one before.|left fingertips, and vice verse. ‘ago and .was sentenced to three|nois, for grinding one-cent coins tof] SOUTH FLORIDA S FINEST turned up there and in Honolulu.|the help of Indiana police the three| The swindlers devised a new| Snead also revealed that he had years, the size of dimes and using them & Az They are awaiting court action, |men were arrested and charged technique. After persuading the|divorced his first wife with her ap-| ‘Thanks Secret Service |! operate merchandise-vending||ll] q_@ings aqg@pe <euitien MME 2.5000 _ x: Caught in Geor: \with passing peemiipraiy i ee victim to ‘creer eae sum|proval, Be order a ne ie A convicted forger in Cal ie machines in a factory. | Working with city po!'ce in Col- notes in and around Pittsburgh. jof money from his bank, they ex-\marry his second wife, C 4 iforni a, Roundubs of Retivity ———_—_—_———eee——————eoooos umbus and niles Cari, a-| The boy responsible for theirjplained that it was necessary tolinherited considersble money. Af-|{ormerly ee Needs serves hie | In a roundup of Secret Service|] Tuesday, Wednesd: and Thursd i sien ke \place the cash in an oven as partiter his second marriage he intro- ret Service for setting him straight,|@ctivity, Chief Baughman -eported of the duplicating process, duced his first wife as his sister)"",, though it is rather siJ.'that his agency received a total of sa . “Money” Burns |and” invited her on the honeymoon.) .; 1 wrote, “I enjoyed watch-|40,221 cases of all kinds for inves-'fij Louis Columbia Restaurant Proving the hand quicker than/Later he told the second wife the lagi the efficiency with which your tigation, and that his agents com-\jil ithe eye, the swindlers contrived| whole story, and the three were! eekank as. eae 117 DUVAL STREET TELEPHONE 2-9158 to substitute for the real money a'on friendly terms at the time they bree 2 repens prtertgiaa es | LUNCH 97. roll of blank paper treated with alwere arrested. in Sar GL Seas thee 1 7 RADIO ano 97c — SPECIAL iad ;heat-sensitive chemical. 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