The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-09
THE TURKISH COUNTERFEIT MONEY.
The Examination before the Mayor-Mr,
Harrison, the Printer, HonOrabiy Dis-
charsed-Description OF the Money and ats
Value-The Plates and Piastres Deposited
In the Shoe and Leather Bank Tor Safe

charEed-DescrtptiOn OF the money nhd ses
Value-The Plates and Piastres Deposited
In the Shoe and Leather Bank Tor Safe
Keeping, &c., DC.
An examination in the Of the counterfeit Turkish
money was held yesterday morning before the Mayor, at
his ofnce-Bstrct Attorney nunt, and d. Scdrayhen, OF
the Ottoman government, and j. Horstord Smith the
Turkish Consul, being present Mr. Harrison was also IN
attendance, with several friends.
The hearing commenced at ten O'clock when Mr.. Har
rison was called and stated the circumstance in which he
became connected with the affair. He said that tho
job received at his Office in the regular
course business the being perfect stranger to
him, and WAS made TO pay in advance the required
amount upon the work They were he stated called by
the question labels" and he had always sup
posed them to be other than such. There being
Chinese characters upon them he led 10 suppose that
they were to be used on come article of commerce Of
origin, and they were printed from the ordinary
stereotype and eecroypc plates used by almost every job
printer As for the wood engravings he had them done at
the establishment Of W. Orr and the plates were cleo
trotypcd where he always had such work done.
No attempt, he said, was made TO conceal them the
Job done openly in his office, and delivered according
to agreement at the Astor House.
Mr Smith the Turkish Consul, expressed himself salts
operation other than in n business transaction.
The District Attorney and the Mayor, after short con
suitaton discharged Mr., Harrison, deciding that there
occasion 10 hold him. there being no evidence
whatever show that i'll printing the socaed labels he
had any means Of knowing or suspectng their true
character.
In dsmissng the matter the Mayor remarked that jus
tce to Mr. Harrison required the publication Of the follow
ing certificate which he voluntarily offered to that gentle
man-also endorsed by the District Attorney
MAYORS OFFICE NEW YoRx, Oct g. 1859.
Harrison having appeared before and appearing
That he had been employed TO print the
Turkish cames without knowledge Of their Oh .ractsr &C
ns 5 s s1 a # the the Is
ed all suspicicn Of having knowingly committed
''' j. BLUNT. District Attorney.
The following certificate then made out and signed
by Mr. Harrison delivering all the plates &C. ever to
the Mayor -
NKw YORK, Oct g. 1859.
Zaene having asceined be intended for fraudulent
purposes having been unwitngy used
by her printing the hereby deliver and renquish
the Daniel r. TiemaDn, Justice OF The feAr ana
Mayor the New York TO be handed To The Turk
| ish government or to be oiherwlse disposed Of .
1 W. l.. s. HARRISON No. 81 Duane street
The property consisted Of thirty eight plates Of copper
twenty seals the Minister Of the Treasury, and thirty
tooraha," OF signatures Of the Sultan. They all
carefully done up and sealed with the Mayor stamp,
and placed the Shoe and Leather Bank TO await the
OF the Turkish government. Mr.. Sedrayhen de
cared the bills to be perfect counterfeit, and stated
that they successfully reached ConstanLnople they
would not have been detected there known
have been counterfeit paper money on tho govern
/ ment banks in circulation.
The "tootah seals, II s ead are kept very sacred
OF such importance they held that the toorah, or
Sutans SEAL guarded night and day by three Of the
highest officials Of the government Had not the custom
House officer at Syra discovered this woman with this
There being dates writing thereon the various ports
would have been, financially speaking, ruined. The fol-
lowing a description " one Of the bills, translated by
Mr. 0scsnyon, Turk residing IN this city