New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-02
PRESENTATION Of COUNTERFEIT COUPONS
INVESTIGATION BY AUDITOR GRAHAM
DISCOVERY OF THE BAND
Ex. Clerk of Wickliffe the COunterfeiter

On the twenty eighth July last, a man by
the name of S. A. Isaac presented to the
Auditor of Public Accounts, coupons of
interest on bonds Of the State to the
amount of $723G, and demanded warrant
therefor. On the following day he called
and received warrant for the sum named
On the sixteenth August last the same man
presented to the Auditor coupons to the
amount of about fourteen thousand
dollars, and demanded a warrant
therefor. An examination Of the coupons
showed that about $500 worth of them
became due in 1860, and coupons of that
and previous dates not being recognized as
good against the State, they were rejected,
and a warrant was issued for the remain
ing. viz: $l2,l20
The suspicious of the Auditor were first
aroused on learning that Isaac took the re-
lection OF his coupons OF lsoo without
murmur, and even with cOmplacencV.
Further inquiry showed that Isaac had been
in needy circumstances. and that among
his recent avOcati0ns was that OF bass
drummer in band OF city musicians. Inc
aid of the police was invoked to lind this
Isaac, but up to Tuesday last the search for
him proved unavailing. In the meantime
the Auditor instituted close examination
of the Cancelled coupons in his office, to
had been thus presented-whether they
were a part of the lot of some 10000 worth
which Wickliffe failed to oproduce last April
and which he was compelled to pay tor III
cash, or whether they were counterteits
The fact that the genuine coupons We're
merely letter press printing, rendered 1t I'M
nossible to say absolutely whether those
presented by Isaac were countertelts or not
believing. however, that the success which
had hitherto attended Mr. Isaac in obtain
ing warrants would encourage another at
tempt of the same kind, the Auditor waited
further developments, and his expectations
were realized. On Tuesday one r. Falk
presented himself at the Auditors office
with $50 coupons of $50 each, precisely like
those previously presented, and requested {.
warrant for them. He was asked to call
the next day, and In the meantime CoiSnei
| Badger. Superintendent of Police, and Ser
geant Malone. of the Metropolitan force,
| were informed Of the appearance OF Mr.. FAX,
and requested to be on the qui cire.
The next day, pursuant to arrangement,
Mr.. Falk called at the Auditors office for
the promised warrant He was informed
| that his business had not yet been reached,
| and requested to call again in two hours.
| Upon Mr. Falk's s departure he was followed
| by an intelligent detective and traced 10
| No. Sc Gravier street, where he met and
| was seen conversing with L. X. BOehler, ia
| person long before suspected of completely
| in these transaCtions), and with 5. A. Isaac
| the man for whom the Auditor had been SC
! long in search. ralk returned at the eXpira
ton of the two hours. He was interrogated
| by the Auditor as TO his name. his residence
! his occupation. who were the holders of the
| bonds from which the coupons he pre-
| sented were taken. and where he
| obtained them. To these questions he an
swered respectively that his name was F
| Falk: that he did business at No. So Graviel
| street; that he was a dealer in cigars and
| tobacco, and was a speculator and war
rant and general broker that he did not
| know who owned the bonds from which the
| coupons were taken, and that he had bought
| the coupons at various times within the Last
| six or eight months, from various parties
| The Auditor then told him that he would
| retain the coupons and that he would mol
| give him q warrant Tor them.
| The detective in question then asked him
| if he knew a man By the name of +. K
| Boehler? He replied that he had no knowl
| edge of any such persCu. The detective re-
| Piled: why l saw you meet and converse
with him not fifteen minutes ago. Upon
! further interrOgatory as to any knowledge
| he light have of the two warrants previously
| obtained for coupons like those he had just
| presented, he answered that they were OBJ
| tanned by his partner. Mr. 5. A. Isaac. Mr.
! Falk was thereupOn arrested, as were, very
| soon after Isaac and Boehler.
| 1t soon after appeared, by the admissions
| of these men. that the coupons in question
| were counterfeit, and had been printed by
| Boehler; that Falk obtained the coupons
| presented by him from Isaac, and that those
presented as well by Isaac as by Falk had
been furnished them by Boehler. Falk and
| Isaac both charged colored man, named
Aleck. formerly the messenger of ex-Audltor
Wicklitfe, with having furnished them with
| the coupons, and with having received the
| proceeds of the sale Of the warrants, less
| their lawful commissions.
| The examination OF the premises Of Boeh-
| ler, under the authority of a search war
rant led to the discovery of counterfeit
coupons, corresponding exactly with those
| in question, to the amount OF about sl2,OOu
| These were printed like the genuine col-
pons. from impressions of ordinary type, OF,
| half sheets of bue-tinted record paper. such
! a. was used in printing the genuine bonds
| and coupons. III tive columns, five coupons
| in each, and each column about an inch
| apart These counterfeit bonds are in the
| possession of Superintendent Badger.
Money to the amount of over S5Go0 was
| also found, in bank and elsewhere, belong
| ing to the parties. which was seized By the
| State under q writ of attachment.
| The usual attidavits We're made by Tic
Auditor against the accused yesterday be
| fore Recorder Staes.
| At late hour last night Superintendent
| Badger and Special Officer Malone arrested
Eugene Chassaignac, formerly clerk in the
| Auditors office, believing that he was II
| some manner connected with this case
When questioned he put in a general denial
| but as the officers woye around him a com
| plete net, tripping him np in all h;s state
ments, he began TO understand that the
chances for escape were slim. and finally
gave nearly all he knew of the affair, bu'
not until he was confronted by Mr
Boehler. who had already frankly admitted
many items the truth of which have been
ascertained. At twelve o'clock last night
Mr.. Chassaignac was furnishing superin
tendent Badger his version OF how the
! racalitv was conducted.
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