Show r 1 clever crooks carry on counterfeiting in prison in 1899 in philadelphia a clever pair of crooks arthur taylor and baldwin bredell were condic convicted aed of counterfeiting U S bills and then sent to Moya mensing prison to await sentence says collier s within several months the men had counterfeited and gotten in circulation 32 excellent 20 notes having made them at night in their cell with a few smuggled in materials and tools which did not include a camera but did include a printing press no larger than a cigar box upon confessing con bessing later the con evicts reenacted re enacted their feat before a group of experts who had sworn it was impossible without a camera and an eight ton press in a sizable workroom |