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> Juettner began working as a maintenance man and building superintendent in New York's Upper East Side. His job allowed him and his family to live rent free in the basement of the building where he worked.


Yes, but he was forced to counterfeit when that job ended.


I think it's a fairly reasonable assumption that he retired (he was 60 in the 1930s) but the article could have made that part explicit.

On my first read I thought he had become a junk collector out of depression for the death of his wife.




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