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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. S. $100 bills and then sent to Moyamensing 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 later, the convicts con-victs re-enacted their feat before a group of experts who had sworn it was impossible without a camera cam-era and an eight-ton press in a sizable workroom. |
