The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-16

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COUNTERFEITERS CAUGHT. fsr
TBE WORK OF THE SECRET sERv1cE-How
TEE TRAPS WERE LAID AND WHO WAS
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The New York Tribune gives the follow
ing account of q counterfeiting Iaid: For
nearly year past an unusual amount of
counterfeit scrip, nickel, and gold and silver
coins. bave been circulating in the western
and southern states, and although over one
hundred persons have been arrested mostly
leaders of the counterteiting gang
have until recently escaped capture.
Through the agency of the secret
service division of the treasury de-
partment, about eighty persons have been
convicted of uttering spurious money and
sent to the Albany penitentiary. The Off
GERS of the secret service knew, however.
that the persons arrested and convicted were
only the seconds and abettors of some pow
erful organization, the chief of which it was
absolutely necessary to capture in order t.
put check upon the circulation OF
large quantities of counterfeit money.
The convicted persons We're what are called
showers of the queer" and were not
the makers ofthe counterfeits. These arrests,
although Of great importance, we're, there
fore, only preliminary to the capture of the
leaders of the counterfeiting gangs of the
country. This has at last been done. and
for time at least the issue OF counterfeit
money to any large amount or Of q kind
that will pass under ordinary circumstances
has, it is thought, been stepped. On the
2Sth day of May the officers of the secret
service were successful in arresting, in
Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Detroit, IL of
THE MOST NOTORIOUS coUNrERFErTERs
In the United States. There is one, Thomas
Ballard. still at large, who is believed to be
the maker of the fiber note plate, and the
$500 counterfeit note which the banks every
without question. Among these arrested
last month are James Seymour, John Mills.
Bill Gordon. Jake ana Andrew Devota, q.
2. Berkeley, James Earle, q. Slopplekampe,
Fred. Kreutzinger, Joe Miller, John McNea-
len, Mary Brown and Mrs Twitchell. On
Thursday morning Colonel II. G. White
ley, chief OF the United States secret service
division, arrived in Washington with the
evidences of the guilt Of the prisoners, and
IL Is thought there will be little trouble in
convicting them. Colonel Whiteley brought
with him 35 well engraved plates, eight
steel transfer rolls and bed pieces for print
ing the counterfeits, some thirty different
kinds of pistols, from common fint-lock
to volcanic repeaters; quantity of inks
and drying oils, Iithographic stones, a
large quantity Of fibre paper, and nearly
one hundred thousand dollars in spurious
money. Among other plates was
a copper one for printing the
two-cent check stamps, class of
stamps from which the annual revenue to
the Government is about S3,0o0,000. The
hand-rolls for printing twenty-five and
| fifty cent notes were of tempered steel. The
faces of the notes were boldly engraved upon
them, and afterward transferred by heavy
hydraulic press to a softer piece ofsteel. The
| latter was in turn hardened, and another
| transfer was made by the same process. By
this means any number OF plates could be
made from which an unlimited quantity. of
notes might be printed.
THE INVITATIONS WERE GOOD,
and would readily pass for genuine money
one of the most curious and cunningly made
plates was for printing counterfit fiber pa
per- 1t is supposed to be the work of Thomas
Ballard. for whose arrest standing reward
of 5 900 is offered. It is the second plate OF
the kind ever secured by the officers of JUS
tice, and is probably the. only one now in
existence. Colonel Whiteley has several
specimens of the new counterfeit $500 bill but
| the plate onwhich it is worked has not yet
been taken. This counterfeit is also sup
rosed to be the work Of Thomas Ballard
The bill has been widely circulated, and un-
/ der ordinary circumstances would be ac-
cepted at any bank. The operators in max
ing this note would wash a genuine 81 bill
/ free of every vestige of printing and ther
print the counterfeit. The ten-cent notes
made by the prisoners have also been readily
accepted. Among the other plates cap
tured were some for making coun
terfeit $40 notes on the Merchants
| National Shoe and Leather Bank of New
York, $40 counterfeits on the National Farm
ers and Manufacturers bank of Pough
keepsie, and S2 notes on the Ninth Nationa
bank Of New York. On the 1st inst. UNITED
States detectives also arrested William Rath
burn at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Abe Hui
at Cairo near Lima, Ohio, charged witt
counterfeiting. A large amount of counter
felt fifty-cent currency was captured
together with $40 notes on the First Nationa
bank of Delphi, Indiana, altered from ones
The prisoners were taken to Cleveland.
THE WAR OF THE CABLES
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