The New York herald., 1879-01-31
COUNTERFEITING.
Startling Disclosures Made by the
Engraver Ulrich.
RICH MEN BEHIND THE ROGUES.
How Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand
"Queer" Dollars We're Manufactured.

The interest attending the capture OF the counter
feters Ulrich Cole and Off, and the Developments
following thereon, eliminated yesterday IN the
revelations made by Ulrch himself as to the extent
of the operations of the gang Jacob Ott one OF the
trio of worthless was under examination before COM
missioner Deuel.. and the principal witness against
him Charles Ulrich. the great counterfeiter en-
graver himself. who brought from Trenton. N.
j.. to testify on the occasion.
The examination took place in the room of AS
sissant District Attorney Fiero. who had his desk
an exhibition of fifty and five dollar counterfeit notes
that would require the keen eye and practised ex-
perence of United States Treasury expert to detect
Captain Henry r. Curtis. chief of the Secret Service
division OF this district, first called The notes of
the iify dollar denomination on the Tradesmens Ma
tlona Bank of New York lie sad were sold to an officer
of the Secret Service by Henry Peckham. who was
now serving sentence of eight years, and the ves on
the Bank of Tamaqua Pa, had been used as evidence
against Mike Connors. now serving out sentence Of
five years CaptSin Curtis handed to Commissioner
Deuel. number of rubber cloths and blankets need
in plate printing which said to belong to OFT. lie
said that he first OFT some time last fall. but
formed his acquaintance until the time Of his
arrest At this time he asked him where he had been
eor the last two years. and he replied that he had
been with Charles Ulrich in Philadelphia; that he
hal lived with him in Sixth street. also ut Oak lane
and Sharon Hill.
David H. Gilknson. detective of the Secret Service
Office testified that he made the arrest of Ot and that
then the cloths which had been offered in evidence
taken by OFT from his trunk; he said that he
had brought them from Columbus. Ohio. where they
used in the lithogrnphing business
ULnicnss STATEMENT.
Charles Ulrich was next called. and in answer to
District Attorney.Fiero told the following story
am about forty three years of age and now in Jail
at Trenton, n j., on a charge OF counterfeiting;
lam an cngravef py 1rsae tsasned .sta !, aI "a DSr m
lowed my trade here; have lived in Eizabethport.
N. j., most of the time. but was in this city for
whe; eight years in the jail at Columbus,
Ohio, and after that started into the business OF
lithorraphing and engraving in that city; know
the defendant Jacob Ott first formed his acquaint-
ance in July, 1876 in Cincinnati, where had been
sent by my partner for ithograph printer; the
came on TO Columbus with me; he stayed there
three or four months, when the business failed and
gave it up; then went to Philadelphia; before
went told him that was going into the counter
fciting business and he wanted to go with me; Invent
to Philadelphia in October, and OFT followed in De-
ccmber, 1896 took house at the corner Of Sixth
and Cumberland streets and started to cngrave the
$50 plates that bill was made from the plate ire
terrng to the one before the Commissioner; know
it in the way that You would indeRtify your
own handwriting; OFT printed them with my assist
sncc; after tho $50 plate was nearly finished we
moved about six miles from Fhiladelphia to place
known as Oak lane; there these $50 notes on the
Central National Bank, OF Now York. and the Third.
OF Buffalo. printed: then started $5 plate.
md as the different sections were completed. OFT did
the printing.
In October, 1877, we moved out to Sharon Hill,
where another lot of ves and ftties were printed,
the latter on the Trsdesinan's Bank of New York;
the latter sent to Europe, though we didn't
know OF this ill afterwards there were 1000 ftics and
5000 fves printed ut Oak lane and 1000 ffties and
S35O,0oO; III April, 1873. gave up the business;
OFT went to New York and stayed in Philadelphia;
OFT was paid $1,000 in cash. and with his family lived
with me nearly two years for nothing; cut those
cloths myself pointing to those brought III by
Captain Curtis) and Mrs OFT sewed them; they We're
used in Philadelphia: we were employed by somebody
else; there was man back OF us with capital.
Ulrich ss-eyamined ut considerable length
by JidEe Dittenhoeter. who appeared for the pris-
oler lie then said IL have been in prison twice
first in sing Sing for five years charge of conn
tcrfctting. and from which 1 pardoned by Gov
ernor Morgan after about three years. WINS next i'm
prsoned in Columbus. Ohio. on sentence OF twelve
years on similar charge-engraving h'ndred-dol-
lar national bill; had been out or Sing Sing about
a'ycar when started i'll counterfeiting never was
rrrcsted in Eprope charges outside Of these have
been preferred against me; never made promise to
stop countereiing when pardoned from Columbus
Prison; never made a promise that broke; do not
know that am TO DO used as States evidence; ex-
pect immunity; secret service officers came to my
cell last night and told me to prepare to go TO New
York to testify against OFT; Colonel lnnes was my
partner in Columbus; / saw him last when lett
there; did no counterfeting there; did no counter
fcting in Europe
came to tho United States when about nineteen
years old; my father jeweller and engraver in
Dantzic Germany and learned the first part the
trade with him and then.fnishcd in regular cstab
Ishment; IL after came out OF Sing Sing that
really began counterfeiting; was wrongfully sesit
there, though convicted OF countcrfeitng; EN-
t,rayed and printed vignette from bank bill, but
this could not have been used to print bills FROM as
the plate only four inches square; was simply
trying 10 show what l. could do; the Metropolitan
Police were just going in elect when was arrested;
the man who made the arrest swore that was an
old cotlntcrfeitcr, had made some on tho Bank
of Engisnd the warden at Sing Sing wrote to Scot
land Yard i'll England and found that the testimony
was untrue. and shortly aftcrward was pardoncd;
the vignette not completed when was arrested.
The engraving on these bills s good. continued
Ulrich. but the paper 10 bad; / do not consider
them good countcrfets; the counterteits are usually
of small denominations because there IL more money
in them for the Wholesale dealer large bin will soon
be stamped as counterfeit, while the small ones can
To changed from bank to bank and people are not SO
shy OF them; expect full punishment. and il don't
yet u shall be surprised; / served tor eighteen
months or two years in the English army during the
Criinc1n war; L was enlisted in New York by some
British agent sent to Boston, aud from thence by
schooner to Halifax. Nova Scotia. In answer to
further questions of Judge Dttenhoefcr the witness
saii he did not know whether hc should prepare for
trial or plead guilty when his called at
Trenton. j.; no had little money. he said. and
did not propose to give to lawyers did he pro-
pose TO say how he got this money.
This testimony closed the fer the government
and Mr. Dittenhocfer said he did not present wish
20 call any witnesses for the defence. At his request
however. the ease was left open until Monday. when
probably the accused will be committed " await tho