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Show U. S. BREAKS UP BOGUS JILL RING NEW YORK, Aug. 4 CfV-WU-liam H. Houghton, In command of aecret service agent! hire, announced an-nounced today seizure ef a gang of eight responsible, he aaid, for etmilartng- hatrthe- counterfeit money in the country. Houghton aaid tha Investigation lasted four months, so clever was the band. The last of the eight were leized today. The capture netted 320.000 In counterfeit 320 New Tork Federal Reserve notea and in 310 silver certificates. cer-tificates. One arrested waa a woman, In whose flat the agent! found a quantity quan-tity of narcotics aa well as card index of nearly a thousand names. Tha names, Houghton aald, were probably "cuatomeri" for "party girls," but undoubtedly alao Included Includ-ed soma narcotic addicts. Those under arrest are Robert Rosenthal, 26; Anthony Rlxzo, 23; Vincenzo Coniglio, alias Jimmy Contl, 37; Frank Poppalardo, 31; Eleanor Poppalardo, 34, aaid to be hia wife; Edward Wagner, alias Nigger, 43; Pompeo Perfetto, 43, and Louis Bianco, 41. Houghton aaid tha ring aupplied counterfeit billa to passers In Cleveland, Cleve-land, Kansas City, Baltimore and other cities. Victor D. Carll, a aecret service agent of Italian extraction, posed aa a fugitive from Justice a "1am-ster" "1am-ster" to aid tha probe. |