ARRESTS ON STEAMER
xVIEN WITH DOLLAR BILLS ' SUSPICION OF COUNTERFEITS ' NEW YORK, Sept. 18. Four men went to the liner Bremen toward midnight, half an hour before the time fixed for the vessel to sail for Europe, and offered to buy small articles from the crew, preferring what purported to Ixi 10 and 20 dollar bills in payment. A cook suspected that the paper was counterfeit money and called two firemen belonging to the ship. The firemen overpowered three of the men, but the fourth escaped. One of the captured men offered a thonsand-dollar bill for his freedom, and then endeavored to tear up a pile of bills with a face value of many thousands of dollars. The police ultimately took the three men in charge.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18207, 30 September 1933, Page 16
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126ARRESTS ON STEAMER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18207, 30 September 1933, Page 16
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