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Show SWIM Scheme,toDefraudRapid Transit Company Is Unearthed New York, March 9. Secret service ' men, employed by the Interborough Rapid Transit company, have unearth- , ed a gigantic scheme to swindle the ; company by means of counterfeit sub- j way and elevated railway tickets. Three men and women were placed under arrest yesterday afternoon, and 1 a small hand press, two dies and 15,-000 15,-000 tickets were confiscated. It is alleged that although few bogus tickets have been sold so far, I those behind the scheme had made ' elaborate arrangements to dispose of ' them by the thousands at a so-called i club near 119th street and Third ave- ; nue at the rate of 2 1-2 cents apiece. More than a week past, detectives noticed no-ticed that a number of counterfeit tickets were in boxes of the subway, and an investigation was begun. They were traced to the 149th street station and this led to the arrest of ; Henry J. Torrens, who lived with his young wife in West Forty-fourth street. The wife was. also taken Into ; custody. i Torrens, it Is said, admitted that he began the alleged swindle on Wash- : lngton's birthday. The counterfeit tickets for the subway sub-way are a good imitation They were apparently made In Brooklyn where Michael Rubinski and Samuel Rubin-ski, Rubin-ski, making tire total of four persons, i I were arrested after Torrens and his wife had been apprehended.The ma- j terial used for making the tickets was found in a building occupied by one j of the Rubinskl6. |