The evening world. Newspaper, December 12, 1910, Page 9

GOLD COIN MAKERS: CAUGHT IN ASTORIA HELD IN $10,000 ancalisia Secret Service Agents Gdt| Counterfeiting Machinery Worth $6,000 in Raid. NINE YEAR CHASE ENDS. Webber, 63 Years Old, Made the Money, Lotterer Cir- culated It in Brooklyn, Frank Weber, tho aged counterfotter, ‘Whose plant and home at No, 604 Acad-| emy street, Astoria, was raided by Se-| | eret Service men in the sight of hun-| dreds of church-goers yesterday morn-| ing, and Benjamin Lotterer, Weber's | accamplice, were arraigneed to-day be- fore United States Commissioner Mor- ley in Brooklyn. ‘The commissioner | held them in bail of $10,000 each for examination Dec, 19, Superintendent Taylor of the Secret Bervice and his subordinates, who made theh raid yesterday, were in the com- miasioner's court. Close at hand they had the dies, crucibles, molds and ma- ORIGINAL FASHIONS: + + | ae + ehinery for turning out spurious $5) and $10 gold pieces, which were cap-| tured in the raid, The counterfeiting | machinery whioh Weber operate: the basement of the house in Astoria worth more than $6,000; | Suspected Nine Years Ago. | Webber, who is sixty-three years old, | was at one time employed in a United States Mint and is a graduate of a German \niversity. die fell under sus picion of the Secret Service men in this district about nine years ago but | disappeared before a case could ve! made against him. Three years ago he Astoria but it was not months ago, when about bad gold Brooklyn, that he w ated The Government sleutis found that Webber was :aking the coins in the ‘Dasement of his home and that Lot was attending to putting them Into cir- culation. One of Supt. Taylor's oper- atives got acquainted with Lotterer and gained his confidence, Out of the acquaintance grew an argreement by which the Secret Service man pay a substantial sum fc interest in the counterfeiting plant. Lotterer met the Secret Service man yesterday by appointment at 8 in the morning in front of No, 35 East Hleventh street, Manhattan, to take him and introduce him to Webber and allow him to inspect the plant and the kold” pieces produced before investing his money. House Is Surrounded. They went directly t6 the Astoria house, Lotterer never once suspecting that he was Leing trailed by Supt. Tay- Jor and that at a de: ated place in Astoria ten men were awaiting a signal from thelr chief to join in the rald. The house in astoria had alzeady been lo- cated by information regarding its whereabouts that Lotterer had let drop. Tae instructions of the detective ac- cortpanying Lotterer were that he would be given until 11 o'clock in which to “inspect” the plant, and that at pre- showed up in enti! mplaints sin Quee cisely that hour Taylor and his men|” would forcibly enter the house. The de- tective was introduced to old, white- haired Webber, and some minutes were spent in courteous chatting about mat- ters other than counterfeiting. But finally the talk got down to “busi- ness” and the chemist and his partner all unsuspectingly ted the Secret Service man into their cellar and lad all its secrets bare. He meanwhile kept an eye on his watch, When it marked the appointed time he whipped out the re- volvers from the big side pockets of his overcoat and thrust a muazle toward each of the men, Child Leads Way to Cellar. ‘Throw up your hands,” he said, quietly. ‘Phe game's up!" They simply stood staring at him, wi jouthed. Then there came to their ears the imperative ringing of the door- bell upstairs. Little old Mrs. Webber answered {t with one of her children Just behind her. “What do you want? Taylor. ‘Step out of the way!" he sald stern- ly to the woman, and then. ng his eye on the child, s how me the way to the cellar.” The little girl did so Taylor was soon beside his subordinate. ed old Webber and Lotterer ns but found none. dren were al- lowed to remain in the house, though a Secret Service man was detailed to| stay there. she asked Supt. a | BOSCARINO, AID OF LUPO, GETS I5 YEARS IN PRISON.| Leanneanecand | Gluseppe Bos: who has been the active head >» Lupo-Morello gang of count © “The Wi sent to pris day sente udge Hough riminal Branch of the Unit t to fit: kel Immediately two of his deputies to leave with the aged eriminal | on the firs ng 8 Boscar! of being the who! who put in circulation the counterfe: Tupo-Morelio gang and ous (bits 1 country f Italy. B rino ris ed with getting | rid of an issue of $20,009 of “*Morris- town Fiy * whieh are made in Italy, and he handled {ast year's output of the which | he saw no reason wh wonderingly. | | | tend the | years ago she entered the ted tole. I. PLUM COLOR SATIN. Gown of plum color satin tr with uny bla velvet butte heavy crewel embroidery Hat of bla with a large fancy ather on the right side and a si e on the left. he was satisfied from the testimony | given at the trial and also from infor- | mation given him by guage Hay, who | presided at the Lupo-Morello prosecu- | tion, that B pal in the He said the same class nterfeiting conspiracy. ‘onvicted man was in ma Morello and Cicale and given a like sentence, SHELTERED, TAKES BABY. jome, Tries bandon Friend's Child. to year-old child and Mrs, Margaret sett, an old wor had sheltered during the night, missing, She ran around to the East Thirty-fifth street police station and was telling the leutenant that her baby had been kidnapped, when Police- eGuire brought in Mrs, Hassett hild, Mrs. Hassett had gone to the Peace and Patience Day Nursery, at No. East Thirty-second street, and had told Matron Murphy that she wanted to leave the child there. Miss Murphy was unable to get a satisfactory state- ment concerning the {dentity of the| child, so she and had her arrested. In Yorkville Court Magistrate Herrman held Mrs. Hassett in $300 bai! for examination to-morrow. He asked Agent Jenkins of the Children’s Society to investigate the matter. ————-— -——— UNIONISTS 56 BEHIND UNITED BRITISH PARTIES. Liberals Made Individual Gain of One Seat in Last Week's Elections LONDON, Dec. 12.-Six belated turns announced to: complete the election results of Satumay and bring ealled in the policeman Parliament. The Lit in the Cricklade Di giving Premier Asquith ang a net gain of one sea pollings. fternoon the Government's ranks Justice Keogh Pays Unusual Re- spect to Aged Negro Nurse. eatng World.) Dec \djourned court to y morning to at: Jof Dinah Hicks, an ol had heen in the wi ded night colored n w Iseogh fa y | yesterday rs The Ad was a slave in Vir ginta, whence she was token at the age og sixteen, She first worked for the thueh family at Fort Mamil m. Thirty employ of The fuperal will be helt Judge Keoga from the Church of the Blessed Sacra where ment, New Rovholte, mass will be rendered, requiem r Waits. idier stationed Fo aiting In the par- lor of her home to greet her, Annie Ses- seilman, aged eighteen, af No, 28 Eighteenth avenue, Astoria, L. I., shot aerself in the right temple last ‘niki t. 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