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Show rimLlu v yegcmen Captured While Trying to Defraud Secret I Service Men New York, Nov. 19. Three well ' dressed Austrian s are prisoners In Brooklyn today, jis the result of the activities of secret son Ice men who say that the three are crooks of International In-ternational reputation and the most expert yoggmcn now In this country. The charge against the prisoners is attempting to swlndlo oue. of the secret sec-ret service men out of $ion by the use of a machine which was supposed to print excellent Imitations of United i States sliver certificates, i The secret service man was told that the plates In the machine had . been stoU-n from the bureau of print-j print-j ing and engraving at Washington, j The machine was given a trial In the rear room of a Brooklyn saloon, a strip of white paper being run through the motor-driven tollers while perfectly per-fectly good ten dollar certificates were pulled out of the other side by means of a device connecti-d with a false drawer. The trial was so successful that the Bceret service man made, an engagement to buv the machine Uiht night. When the three Austrians showed up at the rendezvous they were arrested The prisoners gave I heir names as Solomon Stroinlsufer, Samuel Dressier Dress-ier and Boris Pp.dojsky. Captain Cnughlln of the Brooklyn detective 'bureau, believes the three have cleaned vp lun.nuu bv the same game In the last year. A lot of them, bo says, are w ell-to do and own many parcels of New York real estate. |