Show Clever Crooks Carry On Counterfeiting in Prison In 1899 in Philadelphia a clever pair of crooks Arthur Taylor and Baldwin Bredell were convicted of counterfeiting U. U S. S bills and then sent to I prison to await sentence says I Colliers 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 smuggled materials and tools which did not include a camera but did include a printing press no larger than a cigar box Upon confessing later the convicts convicts convicts con con- re-enacted re their feat before a group of experts who had sworn it was impossible without a camera camera camera cam cam- era and an ton eight-ton press in a sizable workroom |