Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1951 — Page 24

PAGE 24 ey | Secret Service Was My Job ~ |To State Post?

Beauty Was Slickest ‘Counterfeit Passer’ Ever Caught by U.S.

May's First Two $100 Bills Were Genuine; Agents Concerned With Rehabilitation, Too

CHAPTER THREE By FRANK A. SECKLER As told to Wendy and Everett Martin ONE OF MY most exciting cases brought me face to face with the most beautiful and slickest woman ‘counterfeit passer” , ever to run afoul of the Secret Service, | Complaints began reaching Secret Service headquarters from| department stores across the country. They were being victimized | by a clever swindler, who obtained money and merchandise from | |

them, always leaving behind two |——— dreads a counterfeit $100 bills. Now, a EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the | i , counterfeit “passer” will seldom | third of an exclusive series of . : try to pass $100 dollar “phonies.” six articles by a man who had Charles E. Bohlen, above, the Yet here was a “passer” who did| been one of the Secret Service's ate Uepartment's top author it successfully and artistically. | most effective undercover oper- ity on Russia, socn will be The swindler was a woman. She| atives. | named a State counselor to was described as young, beautiful, = —— take a major part in guiding

exploits were masterpieces of With permission of my chief, I Washington reports. Bohlen, 46,

timing and acting. I was assigned reopened the case. I went directly is now U. S. minister to France, |

the case. to ie ain to that man, now a respected fig-

+ 1 BAOKTRACKED through a ure in business, banking and civic Steer Named T-Bone

dozen cities where stores had been affairs in his community, He de- Almost Stays on Hoof defrauded. When I heard the nied peing the man we sought.! SOUTH PASADENA, Cal, Feb.

stories, 1 was able to piece to-gs I asked him to show me his |20 (UP) - Old-time western

ther the method of operation of | this beautiful crook. P right forearm. Slowly, he rolled roundups didn't have a thing on

{up his sleeve. On his flesh s athe havoc caused here by a 9May Gilbert, the super-slick | pbaag’ heart-shaped tattoo, al » month-old steer named “T-Bone.” passer, always picked for her motto, “Semper Felix,” meaning The steer escaped its pen yesoperation a store where fur- «always fortunate.”- He was our terday and took off for the wide trimmed cloth coats retailed from |p,a41 ’ open spaces, pursued by an ama£110 to $125. She usually chose 8 T returned to New York, and teur posse of 15 men. * store near a bank. She would ar- gave my chief an outline of the Before he was coralled, “Trive breathlessly, explain she was case. He agreed I would have to Bone snarled traffic, upset the in a hurry to keep an appoint-|pring the man in. But, he thought, neighborhood, scattered oil drums ment and ask to try on a coatiwe might be able to do some- At two gasoline stations and sent

she'd seen in the window. thing to lighten the sentence tW0 pursuers to the hospital with

She'd buy the coat quickly. She'd [awaiting the fugitive. At least, [minor Injuries.

pay for it in cash—two $100 bills. WE Sod iy. te P urried bac o Pennsylvania. | Hundred-dollar bills of course, iy... eoonen oo man might have |

are always subject to scrutiny in fled any well-run store. Invariably the; eg rilhigid bf se As store would send a messanger On y.y shout to leave his business! a quick dash to the nearby bank |,erice with all the available cash! ® 00

to get expert opirion on May's he was able to raise. hundred dollar bills. That always, After I talked with him, he tequired five or 10 minutes. agreed to accompany me to New| May Gilbert, meanwhile, began York. He notified his wife and | to be irritated “by the delay. She family he was making a business demanded her: purchase and the trip. Back in New York, my chief |

change. It was explained to her and I conferred with the federal it would take a few minutes long- probation officer, the U. 8. atar. Then May would fly into a torney and with a federal judge.! tantrum. “Finally, the messenger They agreed to accept our recom- | £

would return from the bank with mendation for leniency. ! |

word that the two $100 bills wera| ‘In fact, they agreed. to go fur-|

sound, United States .currency— ther. The old parole violation was | y quashed. T was able to put a free

good as gold. 3 "But at that point, May would pao naPPY Man on a train back fo,

be in such a rage that she would" mpat js the Secret Service phi- : refuse the coat, and demand her) q,phy, It is as deeply concerned money back. She couldn't Dbe|with a man’s rehabilitation as it calmed down, The store would|iq with exacting punishment for] return her money and May would crime. |

regally prance out of the shop,| I am satisfied we acted in acléaving behind & group of terribly cordance with a law higher than embarrassed salespeople and athe ones made by man. manager or two. bev knit a $54 lew ‘days later May would, TOMORROW: The “Master

feturn to the same store. -This| Criminal” of them all.

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time, she was half-apologetic,| = a Ne un “ saying that nowhere in town Victor Dealers Sales il LAL could she find a coat that suited) her so well as the one she'd tried COnference to Open Tay on a few days ago. She would] The vagaries of material sup- ¥

humbly swallow her pride in order je will be brought out for an to have the coat she wanted. |airing tomorrow when the two-|

— Ole ae em tay Victor Dealers Sales Conwith the two $100 bills which, this ference opens in Antlers Hotel. time, were accepted without ques-| Robert Schmeider, general sales tion. So, with her coat and $80 manager for Inland Steel Co., will or $00 in change, she would discuss “availability” on opéning Sweetly depart. day. “The last two $100 bills she left| Hall-Neal Furnace Co, sponwere counterfeit. {sors of the conference, expect | - I picked up May Gilbert's trall|dealers from. throughout the na-| $n Baltimore.. In city after city tion to attend the sessions which throughout the East, I was one will close with a 4 p. mabanquet step behind her. I caught up with| Thursday. The conference will| her in Boston and arrested her. start at 10 a. m. She lived up to her billing. She EE ———————— | was young and beautiful. By the time she finishes her sentence in a THE .

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rehabilitated himself in the eyes i of the law and of society. I can-| Daily Except Sunday fiot reveal his name here, because

only four living persons know his : Phone LI. 3995 story. | 367, W. Washington St J It was a case of forgery of gov- /2 : gt : -

spirators, who was a Jaroles, = ésca . He vanished int : gg pest efforts failed “rn . Num bie til toi or ristasion Be welve years later, a man’s ples! ; concerning this type of ture was taken from our files in a| 1 \ savings account. routine investigation shothér} 3 identifie SE ee an that of a well-known, SSE XY -J0:31.] in Pennsylvania, for whom she : RELIEVES DIS Arp OF pnd work ion. mur 1 koe) GE oo] Wo LE LEURCTGEIITIEN ———— BR 21 VIRGINIA AVENUE Soff’ Shoes | 22

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