Two Men Arrested For Possessing Counterfeit Bills
- Title of event
- Two Men Arrested For Possessing Counterfeit Bills
- Type of event
- Counterfeiting
- Address of event
- Two Men Arrested For Possessing Counterfeit Bills Happened Entirely at 101, W 140th St
- Report on event
- Two Men Arrested For Possessing Counterfeit Bills Sole event referenced by Joe Louis Cash? Its Counterfeit; Two Harlemites Held For Fake $20 Bills
- Start date / time
- September 29, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Unknown
- Description
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"A man who insisted that he had been paid in counterfeit $20 notes when he won a bet on the recent Joe Louis fight was arrested Sunday with a companion when an apartment at 101 West 140th Street was raided by federal agents... The agents said the notes were printed on a counterfeit press, which was seized in a recent New Jersey raid."