Crime: Counterfeiters

Secret Service raids on a counterfeiting conspiracy, characterized in the New York afternoon edition as "gigantic," increased the population of the New York jails by 22 and added to the government's collection of criminal curios about $100,000 in bogus bank notes. Although a cryptic secrecy veiled the details of the Federal activity, it is said that over 1,000 persons will be arrested for connection with the counterfeiters. Millions of revenue stamps, postage stamps, whisky, beer and champagne labels, bonded liquor seals, and doctor's prescription blanks were also discovered. Secret Service men say that their prisoners have gulled the trusting public for over $1,000,000 in crooked currency and over $10,000,000 in spurious stamps, labels and seals in the past year.