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...much money does a successful counterfeiting gang make? The machinery is heavy and expensive. A fairly numerous staff of passers must be paid. Also the amount of patience, time and care required- which might otherwise be spent in making money honestly-is great. But counterfeiters have their triumphs, however brief. Last week the Treasury at Washington and officials of the German and Swiss police came to a rueful conclusion. They think that a counterfeiting gang as yet uncaught has successfully placed in Central Europe at least $100,000 worth of spurious U. S. banknotes. They fear that the success...
...German Communist Party, but of recent years a personage of nebulous though prosperous obscurity. "Franz Fischer has fled from his flat," read a succinct Berlin police communiqué. But a somewhat loquacious official said, without allowing himself to be named in quotation: "He was probably only a fence. The gang must have a big print shop somewhere, with a large staff of experts, or they could never produce such perfect quantity results. They have turned out so much that they must have relations with some big paper mill, probably through bribery of employes. Their profits must be enormous. We think...
Here they find a motley gang. "Some had been sentenced and were serving jail terms; others awaited trial or removal to the penitentiary." Old Crow, the stool pigeon trusty, "as bitter as St. Paul, and meaner in heart than Calvin;" the boy from the South who had killed his father; Nitro Dugan, the roving yegg, who had presided at the hobo "kangaroo trial" and execution of One Lung Riley, the ex-bum who had turned railroad detective and knew too much; Brother Jonathon, glib medicine-show barker, pretentious charlatan, kindly man of the world; Hypo Sleigh, the dope fiend, under...
...bodies of seven gangsters slain in the Moran whiskey depot last winter strengthened their conviction that Burke had led Chicago's famed St. Valentine's Day massacre (TIME, Feb. 25). To him are attributed at least four other murders, among them the killing of Brooklyn Gang King Frank Uale (TIME, July 9, 1928). The Federal government and six States want him for shootings or bank banditry. Rewards between $60,000 and $75,000 (depending on the number of convictions obtained) are set on his head. The underworld "grapevine" reported that potent underworldlings would pay double that amount...
...Attorney-General, sent fake convicts to Atlanta and Leavenworth to snoop. She demanded the resignation of Atlanta's Warden John W. Snook "because of utter want of administrative ability" (TIME, March 25). Out went Snook, in came A. C. Aderholdt, who first worked for Atlanta prison as a construction gang foreman in 1906, later as prison guard, as record clerk. Now, as warden, he is softspoken, reticent, diligently eludes publicity. But Mrs. Willebrandt, busily though she snooped, got nothing done about cattle-herding in the Federal prisons...