The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-09
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of a band of forgers who have made Syra thei
headquarters
The fact of her arrest caused great sensation fo
time in Syra, and the Ottoman government wrott
to the Turkish Minister at London, stating the ar
/ rest OF Mrs. Sevesti, with large quantity o
calmes, or paper money; and that she had, dur
ing Judicial proceeding made before the Minister
! OF Police stated that she had caused the "caimes
| TO be printed by the above named printer in thi;
city, The Turkish Minister at London wrote 70 the
consul for the Ottoman Porte in this city, j. Hors-
ford Smith, Esq, which letter arrived on Wednes-
day by the AragO, giving his suspicion that there
was yet large quantity OF the counterfeit money
to be found on HarrsOns premises.
Mr.. Smith proceeded at once before the Mavor,
where he made the following affdavits, upon which
warrant was issued and placed in the above off
GERS hands:
AFFIDAVIT OF Mr.. SMITH.
j. Horsford Smith, Consul for the Ottoman Porte
IN this city testified that he had received despatch
rom the Ottoman Government through the Turk
lsn minister at London, stating that a Mrs Sevesti
Moldavlan, had arrived at Constantinople from
England, with considerable quantity of "caimes'
or paper money, consisting of six hundred thousand
pieces OF paper money of twenty piastres each; and
that the said Mrs. Sevesti has, during a judicial
proceeding or Interrogation made before the Minis
Ter OF the Police, declared that she, under the as
sumed name of Madame Garfner had caused the
salu cannes or paper money to be printed in the
Guy OF new ork by certain Harrison a book
printer, at No. SO Duane street, in said eitv: that
she had taken away four plates in order to print
the imperial 'taughra," or signature of the Sultan
ana seal Tor the reverse of the "caimes" and
tnat there remains besides sixteen pieces of each
OF these plates in the magazine of the above
named printer and in his possession as well
as the torn and dirty "caimes," among those which
she mas caused to be made; and he further said he
nao Iu reliance In the authority of the information
thus conveyed, and he believes that the said
cannes, plates for printing them, or some parts
thereof, are now concealed on the premises or in
50 Duane street in the n;a Of Nh amu aT Ne: 1e
ponent further says that the said "caimes" are
paper money issued by and under the sanction of
the turkish government, and that they circulated
as money therein, and that the said Harrison has
printed the same with the intent to deceive and de-
fraud, and that the should be altered and dis
posed OF with fraudulent design. Defendant prays
that the said Harrison may be arrested and that a
search warrant be issued seize on the said plates
and counterfeit 'caimes"' which he has reason to
believe and does believe on the premises of said
Harrison, at No. 80 Duane street.
j. HoRSFORD SMITH Ottoman Consul
Sworn before me this 18th day of October 1858,
NM DANIEL F. TTEMAN, Mayor.
The officers, searching Harrison's place re-
covered about S4OO, 900 of the counterfeit money,
winch they found upon the shelves in the office
All the plates were recovered, and, together with
the prisoners, conveyed before the Mayor
Mr.. Harrison, when arrested, seemed very much
surprised especially when informed that he had
Deen arrested for cOunterfeiting. The other par
ties arrested were John Sorney Richard Tweed T.
W. Rumsey, NJ. j. Stillwell, Frederick Stiner Nor
rls Roach, James Connolly, and Z. W. Griffith all
printers
The Mayor decided to hold Mr.. Harrison 10 hal
IN the sum of $4,000 to answer, if any examina-
tion might be required His clerks were also held
as witnesses Mr.. Harrison soon gave the required
bail and was discharged
He describes Mrs. Sevesti as woman annar-
emily about forty years of age, and was at al |
times elegantly attred and very lady-like in her
manners.
MR.. HARRIsoN's srATEMENr-Tro THE pUnL1c7
cd dnsIpn ptofA
the charge made by the Turkish Consul of print
ing .calmes OF paper money such as is issued by
the Turkish government that he is entirely and alb
soutely innocent of any criminal knowledge or in
tent in the whole matter, not having entertained
the remotest suspicion, at the time the Job was
done, or since that the printing which he executed
could be put to any illegal use. The Job came to his
once apparently in the regular course of business
Inc woman being a stranger to him, was told the |
rule OF the office, requiring from strangers refer
ence or an advance payment; she chose the latter
alternative, and the job put in hand, and exc
cuted, as soon it could conveniently be done |
The "labels, as she called them and which he sup
posed were to be used some nostrum or article of
commerce of Eastern origin, from there being Chi |
nese characters upon them, printed from the |
ordinary stereotype and electrotype plates used by
all job printers in their business. The wood en- |
craving was made by Mr.. J. w. Orr who does all |
the subscribers engraving-the plates were cleo
trotyped where he has all that kind of work done
the paper was made by dealers from whom he pur- |
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office, in the view of strangers, visiters and Gus
toners, having been the press for fifteen days,
and seen during that time by hundreds of persons
no conceament secrecy nor the slirhest attemDt
at privacy, being made by him, from the moment
he made the bargain until the job was delivered at
the Astor House. Indeed so little did the under |
signed suppose chad been doing anything wrong or
illegal printing this job, that these ''labels which
now prove to be Turkish paper money, have been ~
ing loose around his office since July last; and large
quantity of them, which the office boys had been
using as waste paper shelf in full view of
the officer when he came to make the arrest. The
electrntvnA nla4oa nln~ .--O.eee.' Ianels 70 Ieau
any one to suspect that they could be used paper
money. They about the size of the printed
paper that comes pack of Chinese ire-crackers,
and are partly covered with similar characters.
To those who know the subscriber personally,
any of his entire innocence of any guilty
knowledge in the matter he feels unnecessary; but
to strangers and the public at large this statement
is submitted, to the end that his unsuspicious and
innocent connection with the transaction may be
correctly understood
WIN. l.. S. HARRISON, Job Printer,
No