similar notes bearing a denomination each of $500,000,000, occurred in Chiasso, Switzerland, in June 2009. Materials and prevention In the United States, counterfeiters in small operations develop the fake currency using tools which often include printers, an iron, and green colored water. Upon collecting bills, the Federal Reserve checks all notes, destroying any whose appearance fails to fit that of a federal bill. Notable American counterfeiters Peter Alston, the late 18th-century and early 19th-century counterfeiter and river pirate, who is believed to be Little Harpe's associate and partner in the murder of notorious outlaw leader Samuel Mason in 1803 Philip Alston, was an 18th-century counterfeiter both before and after the American Revolution in Virginia and the Carolinas before the war, and later in Kentucky and Illinois afterwards. Edward Bonney, an alleged counterfeiter in northern Indiana, who escaped to Nauvoo, Illinois, was a bounty hunter and amateur detective, posed as a counterfeiter, to apprehend the murderers of Colonel George Davenport and infiltrate the Midwestern Banditti of the Prairie. Abel Buell, American colonialist and republican who went from altering five-pound note engraving plates to publishing the first map of the new United States created by an American. Mary Butterworth, a counterfeiter in colonial America. Mike DeBardeleben, was sent to prison for counterfeiting the $20 bill John Duff, was a counterfeiter, hunter, and soldier, who served in George Rogers Clark's campaign, to capture the Illinois country, for the Patriot American side, during the Revolutionary War. David Farnsworth, was a British Loyalist American counterfeiter and spy, in the American Revolutionary War. He was hanged for his crimes, after George Washington had taken a personalised interest in his case. Emerich Juettner aka Edward Mueller, documented in Mister 880, was possibly the longest uncaught counterfeiter in history. For ten or more years he eluded government authorities while he printed and spent fake $1 bills in his New York neighborhood. John A. Murrell, a bandit operating in the United States along the Mississippi River in the mid-nineteenth century. He was convicted for his crimes in the Circuit Court of Madison County, Tennessee, and incarcerated in the Tennessee State Penitentiary, modeled after the Auburn penal system, from 1834 to 1844. Sturdivant Gang, a multi-generational group of American counterfeiters whose criminal activities took place over a 50-year period from Colonial Connecticut to the Illinois frontier. Albert Talton, who was sent to prison for counterfeiting the United States one hundred-dollar