The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-01-25
FAMOUS COUTTEREEITERS.
Their Capture and Career of Crime
Successes and Mishaps.

the arrest III Now Jersey Of two Of
the leading countcrfcitcrs in the
United States. They arc Charles
Ulrich and Henry G. Cole, better
known rs Harry Cole. Ulrich was
arrested recently ut his homo in
Fanwood, N. j., whiio engaged
in engraving the plates for coun-
forfeit legal tender note Of tho de~
nomination Of 500. Upon his ar~
rest he gave such information rs to
the future intentions of his employ
er-to furnish the press, paper and
other mate rial to DO used in the
printing Of the notes when the plato
was completot-as induced the
chief to hold him in close confino-
ment in his own house to await tho
arrival of his employer. Friday af-
ter noon Henry Cole, tho employer,
put in an appearance. Ho had in
his possession some of the expected
articles, and was at once arrested.
Ulrich is by birth Prussian, of
fno presence and genial manner.
He is about 43 years old and has
been in tho United States about
twenty years. He has served two
terms of Imprisonment, one at Sing
Sing and tho other ut Columbus,
Ohio, ponitentiary, both for coun~
tcrfeiting. In the latter place he
was sentenced for twelve years, in
June, 1868. He was pardoned in
1876, having served eight years of
the time for which he was sentenced
Among the finely engraved coun~
terfeits executed by him previous to
his conviction IL 1868 wore 100 dol.
lar counterfeits on the Central
National Bank of New York city,
500 countorfeits on tho First Ma
tional Bank of Boston, 500 coun-
terfeits on the Ohio National Bank,
Cincinnati, Ohio. When arrested
in Cincinnati, in 1867, he wao onaged
upon and had neelly completed tho
back plate for II $500 United States
noto. There were also found in his
possession unfinished plates for q SIS
counterfeit note. Since his release,
in 1876, he has been unusually &C
tive in his nefarious business as q
counterfciter. He has engraved
plates and printed counterfeit is
sues as follows Fifty-dollar coun-
terreit on the Central National Bank,
city Of New York; $50 on Third
National Bank, Buffalo; $5 on First
National Bank, Tamaqua, Pa. SIS
on the First National Bank, Han.
over, Pa. !; $50 oSNational Broad
wayBank, New York, and $50 on
Tradesmen's National Bank, Now
York.
It will be remembered that the
counterfeit issues on tho two latter
banks found their way to Hamburg
and other European ports, and were
passed upon emigrants leaving those
ports for the United States. The
work of issuing counterfeit notes of
the same denomination of different
banks is greatly fcilitnted by what is
known to the couDtorfeitor as skcle-
ton or transfer plates, by means of
which he can, by changing the title
and location Of tho bank, together
with the signatures of tho president
and cashier, (tho work Of weekly
produce a full set of plates, by which
the issues Of any national bank in
the same State con be counterfeit
cd.
The guiding spirit under whose
dircc tion all tho mischief wrought
by Charles Ullich was accomplished
was Henry Cole. Ho is an old
counterfeitor and an ex-convict,
about sixty four years of age. He
has q large family, lives in good
style in Philadelphia, drives his
horses and has q valuable farm q
few miles out from the city. He
served term in the Clinton IN. Y.)
pcnitentiary, and was pardoned by
Governor Hoffman early in 1871.
In October of the same year he was
again arrested in Now York, having
q few moments previous sold $4,000
in counterfeit ten and twenty dollar
bank notes. He was admitted to
bail in $4,000, and subsequently
giving information in relation to
The operations Of an alleged coun-
terfeiter named Miner, aeoUe pros.
was entered in his case. Immedi-
ately after tho release of Ulrich
from the Columbus (O) penitentiary
Harry Colo paid him visit to in-
duce to again take up counterfeit
ing. The result of his step is above.
stated. Cole, being q man Of some
means, has controlled Ulrich's
operations from 1875 up to the time