THE BEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY. APRIL 10. 1921.
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Counterfeiters
In Berlin Duped
With 'Gold Bricks'
Printers of Bogus Currency
Arrested After They Fall
Victim to Police
-Swindle."
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Be Foreign Ncwi
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Berlin, April 9. Counterfeiters
caught by a variation of the vener
able gold brick device resulted re
cently from a series of incidents
which are believed to have been a
clever ruse throughout on the part
of the Berlin police. Enght in
' genious printers have been arrested.
These skillful craftsmen had gone
into the bank note printing and issu
ing business, with a zeal hardly ex
ceeded by the government itself, as
in a single week it produced paper
money to the face value of 1,000,000
marks. The notes were exceedingly
well done and certain banks have be
come badlv victimized.
Ready to Sell.
Recently two of them got into
touch with Russian emigrants in
one of the fashionable cafes of Ber
lin, which the gang made use of for
the transaction of its business, and
the Russians, in talking over a
bottle of wine, let them into the
secret that they had brought with
them out of Russia gold coin
amounting to 40 pounds in weight
The craftsmen thought this a price
less opportunity for putting some of
their own notes into circulation
against excellent cover. The Rus
sians were ready to sell, and after
some hard bargaining they bought
the gold, not, however, before they
had taken it to a jeweler, where the
ample coins were assayed.
Feel the Hook.
Having handed over the notes
from their own bank of engraving,
the printers put away their acquired
gold reserve and proceeded in force
to the bank to exchange for bank
notes of the kind more commonly
preferred in the best financial circles.
At the first visit, however, they were,
informed by the teller that their gold
was good imitation, but not good
enough for the bank notes, as it
was really only hard solder. The
eight craftsmen, dumbfounded, could
only burst forth into recriminations
against one another, during which
the police were fetched and the men
ire now awaiting trial.
The story is whispered that the
Russians were but skillful men em
ployed by the police, who manipu
lated real gold at the jeweler's and
glittering dross outside. It is even
said that the jeweler and the ex-
cnange DanK ware also in the
"swindle," as the eight craftsmen
thought fit to call the transaction.
German Lottery Appeals
Flood New Hampshire Town
Manchester, N. H., April 9. The
city of Manchester has been flooded
with German lottery appeals coming
from Earnest Schultz, Berlin, Ger
many. The communications have
been sent to all sorts of people, in
cluding ministers and lawyers, as
well as workers , in the shops and
mills. No attempts are made to dis
guise the fact that it is a lottery, the
capital prize being named and direc
tions given for forwarding money.
The matter has been reported to the
postal authorities by Postmaster Wil
lis. No orders have been as yet re
ceived in regard to the lottery mail
at the local postofrice. ,
Old Resident Declares
Devil Does Not Run Town
Worcester, Mass.. April 9. For
mer Alderman Willielm Forsberg,
one of the oldest residents of Quin
sigamond, resents a statement made
by the Rev. Joel Fridfelt, pastor of
the Quinsigamond Swedish Congre
gational church, that "the devil has
run Quinsigamond long enough."
"Quinsigamond is one of the most
peaceful spots in Worcester," says
Mr. Forsberg.
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Brides of
MRS. HAW LEY and Mrs.
Wells hung out in the same
back yard. Never mind ex
acfly what they hung out Every
Tuesday they met in the yard, for
luesday was their cay to Iiave tne
lines.
A bowing acquaintance soon
warmed to triendship, and mutual
visiting became the order between
the Hawley three-room flat on the
ground lloor and the Wells lour
room apartment on the third.
Exchansres of confessions and
confidences revealed that neither
had been married quite half a year,
that both their hubbies were dears
and brutes, that matrimony was just
adorable and all one-sided against
the woman, and that the grocer was
a profiteering scoundrel.
All went smoothly until Mrs.
Hawley, with beaming visage, ex
hihitcd to Mrs. Well& a bracelet, set
with the loveliest turquoise, which
her husband had brought home to
her just for nothing at all; no an
niversary or birthday or anything,
just because he was a good kid and
he loved her.
Mrs. Wells thought that was
simply lovely. She thought so to
Mrs. "Hawlcv. But when Jerome
Wells came home that night she
thought differently to him she
thought it was a pity that every
other man on earth brought gifts
home to his wife, and he never as
much as hauled in a bag of peanut
brittle.
Wells kissed her, but that did not
square it. He tried to read a paper,
but she wouldn t let him. He threw
up his hands and surrendered yes I
He had been at fault! All wrongl
She cried a bit and said she was glad
he at least had manhood enough to
admit it. That was how and why
he got some sleep that night Next
night he didn't get so much; Mrs.
Wells kept him awake for hours,
raving to him over what a wonder
ful hubby-hub he was, bringing his
birdie that beau-u-u-tiful bracelet
with the reconstructed ruby setting.
Next morning, bright and early,
Mrs. Wells descended on Mrs. Haw
ley, and, with significant nonchal
ance, flashed the bracelet. Mrs.
Hawley turned pale so did her tur
quoise. She stuttered congratula
tions and sweetly asked what was
the occasion for this royal gift. Mrs.
Wells said there wasn't any in par
ticular; just a crazy old darling's
passion for showing a woman how
much he thought of her, that was all.
Hawley got an earful of it that
evening. So he thought a turquoise
of his bride, the girl whom he had
said he loved more than any other
man in- all the history of all the
world had ever loved any other
woman, while this Wells idolized
that putty-faced nuisance of his to
the extent of a reconstructed ruby,
eh?
Hawley said all right all right;
maybe Wells made more. Mrs. Haw
ley flew a.t him. Wrhat right did ha
have to make more? Was he any
cleverer? Was he any better?
Hawley said for goodness sake
he didn't know. He bad only sup
posed that maybe Wells made more
he didn't even know Wells. He
had only guessed at it suggested it
as a possible solution. Maybe Wells
did not make more. Maybe he stole
the money. Or maybe he had mar
ried money.
That was percussion stuft
Mrs. Hawley went into "a hys
teric" Was that meant to be a
dirty "dig" at her because she had
been just a decent, honest working
girl and didn't bring her marvelous
husband a bank or a gold mine, as
he undoubtedly deserved with his
charms and blue blood? Hawley
said for the love of Mike would she
please come down to the floor and
behave, herself? He hadn't said j
anything to start a riot; and he was
tired.
"Sure," she whined. "You're al
ways tired. I slave all day and make
you dinner and your bed and fix
your home up so you can come home
and tell me how tired you are. O,
whv did I ever "
He wanted to say, "O, dry upl"
But he worshiped her. So he just
sighed and came up from behind
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and put his two arms about her. ani
called r-er his little girl, and kissed
her on the top vertebra, and gave
her a little squeeze, and scratched
her back and her scalp gently, and
whispered in her ear that there was
only one thing in this world that he
wanted and that was to see her
happy. And leave it to him I
The following day brought into
the palm of Mrs. Hawley a cluster
ring of chip diamonds.
She smothered him with evidences
of her grateful appreciation, her
boundless affection. Had she scold
ed him and misjudged him and been
a beast to him while all the time he
was planning this grand surprise for
her? Hawley said it was nothing
like that; he had merely saved
enough by scrimping and cutting
down his cigars to bring his lamb a
modest liT knicknack.
Modest, was it? Mrs. Wells
rcarcelv thought so, though she did
not have much to say aloud over it
when Mrs. Hawley grandiloquently
"pulled it on" her before another
noon had heard its dinner whistles.
That eventide brought Wells a
cold supper. Before he had his hat
off he tensed that some calamnity
had come upon his house, and when
he had to find his wife in the kitchen
instead of having her greet him.
jumping up and down, at the halt
door, he knew it.
"What's eating my cutie tonight?"
he inquired.
"Little you care," she responded,
and asked him to please not call her
his litt'e eutie it sounded decidedly
dance hall
Wells scratched his head, but he
couldn't make it out. He had done
nothing that he knew of to destroy
his bride's mood or vinegar the wine
of her tenderest sentiments toward
him. What the what had happened?
She knew just how long he would
endure that. It lasted 17 minutes.
Theh he shut off the jazz record In
the middle, stalked out to the
kitchen, took both her hands in a
firm, resolute grip, and, pleadingly,
but insistently, asked her for the
love of the man in the moon to
please let out her grouch. She
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shook her head. "Come on, tell
daddy," he urged, and she knew by
the tone of it that he was now ripe.
And she let him have it
That impossible, snippy, slab-sided
Mrs. Hawley had been down - to
crow over her to humiliate her by
showing her a gorgeous diamond
studded ring that must have cost
seventy-five dollars if it cost one red
penny! Wasn't that enough?
Wells capitulated in a heap. He
surrounded her with his arms, he
kissed her on the ear, on the nose,
and on each eye, ana assured her that
his little peachy wasn't going to play
second fiddle to any of these side
show freaks that were married to
the simps in the neighborhood no,
sir; they wouldn't' any of them the
best of them have anything on his
cutie.
She flung her arms around his
neck and sobbed on his breast she
had been a horrid, hateful creature.
Maybe it would be hard for him to
buy her diamonds. Maybe she was
asking too much. Maybe she was
driving him
It was nothing less than a three
quarters of a carat solitaire that
Wells handed over, with a fool grin
of joy, to his cutie, less than twenty-
four hours afterward. If his em
ployer could have heard one-half the
things she railed him within the
hour that followed he would have
raised .Wells' pay, for the bride de
clared him the grandest man on
earth, the sweetest old baby-daddy
in the world, the loviest lovums un
der the sun.
In due time Mrs. Hawley had her
eye put out with the solitaire. It
made her cluster appear like cracked
ice. Mrs. WcMs' description of the
presentation made the three-quarters
of a carat swell to a bowlder. When
she ran away, saying as though she
had suddenly thought of it that she
had to hurry down and fix supper
for her wonderful boy, Mrs. Hawley
just sank on to the Morris chair and
groaned. Hawley. found her that
way.
It took him an hour and half a
dozen modes of attack to pierce her
outward lines, and when he crashed
through and got the news, with
trimmings, with observations, with
recriminations, with a Niagara of
tears and an orchestra of yelps, he
wanted to throw a lamp through the
window. But he didn't they
seldom do. He came around.
And, long after normal good-night
time, she mopped her eyes and hoped
that she wasn t catty or mean, but
she just couldn't help it; she was
only a child, and she loved pretty
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things, craved them, was, O, so un
happy when she could not have them.
Maybe she's, ought to be spanked,
but it was her nature this yearning
for the beautiful, for the rich, for
the luxurious. He said it was quite
natural pretty things longed for
pretty things just trust him and go
'eepy.
lhat scene brought a fur throw.
Furs cost like the mischief, and no
one knows it any better than women
who receive them and men who pay
for them. Mrs. Hawley knew this
piece had set Hawley back a pretty
check, and Mrs. Wells almost fainted
when Mrs. Hawley "ran in" to show
her, "by the way," what her silly
boy had gone and shopped ior her.
It was a rough evening on Wells,
and it panned a silk-lined suit for
his wife, the smartest two piecer in
the ward. Mrs. Hawley gasped
when she beheld it. Hawley squirmed
when he heard about it, which he
did for a week before he pawned his
watch to come through with half a
dozen pairs of sheer silk stockings
and a jade necklace.
Mrs. Wells and Mrs. Hawley do
not speak now.
They both had their hanging-out
day changed, so that not only do
they not both hang on Tuesdays, but
cne hajigs on Thursdays and the
other on Mondays.
But Wells and Hawley shucks 1
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They go to lunch together and give
one another cigars.
It came about thus:
A week or so after the stockings
and necklace episode. Wells met
Hawley on the elevated. They had
bowed once or twice before, y
neighbors do, without even knowing
names. When they got chatting on
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halted in the No Man's Land of the
second story landing, both began to
speak at once, and when the smoke
cleared each was holding out her
right hand to the other, and in each
right hand there was something
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