The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-01-24
ULRICITS STRANGE HISTORY.
COUNTER EITER, AND sURVIVOR or
BALIKLAVI CHARGE
The skiIruI Enqrnver In JAN In Newark
Riding with the Light Brigade and Left
for Dead On the FieId-Hcury q. Coles Z ase.

INC hkIIfut InIrnNer IN JIM IN NeWnrH
Riding with the Light Brigade and Left
for Dead On the FieId-Henry g. Coles Ease.
tall slender, hollow-eycd, consumptive-
looking man was norvously walking in the cor
ridors OF the Newark Jail rs Deputy United
Statcs Marshal McDanlcls called for him ut 10
O'Clock yesterday. This man was Henry c.
Cole. tho alleged cOuntcrfoiter. who was recent
ly arrested with Charles Urich on n charge Of
conspirng to Hood the country with counter
felt 800 United States Treasury notes, which
were to be printed on plate engraved by Ul-
rich in Scotch Plains. n j. Colo donncd n
heavy blue cloth ovcrcOat and scalskln cap.
knotted n yellow and black spotted silk scarf
around his neck. and then entered n sleigh
with his wife, stout woman with rosy com
plcxon and ron-grny hair. who wore seal
skin sacque and black silk dress, with gold and
diamond ornaments. The party were driven to
tho Office OF United States Commissioner Ed
ward .. Kcasbcy. in Broad street. whore Capt.
Henry Il. Curtis md other officers Of tho United
States Secret Service were in waiting. There
they wero Joined by Coles counsel. billy"
Guild. who wns the advisory counsel Of some Of
the consprators in the Washington safe burg
larry case. Cole had requested n preliminary
examination before the Commissioners. Ho
and Ulrich had been before the United States
Grand Jury. in Trenton on Wednesday.
After q long consultation with his client.
Guild said: am satisfied that prima facic
case can be made against my client. and II this
rs done the Govcrnmcnt will no doubt hold him
to bail. An examination would be- Of no advan-
wholly waved
Commissioner Keasbey granted tho motion.
and Cole was rcmanded 10 the Essex County
iail. i'm Newark lie talked earnestly with his
wife few minutes. and kissed her before he
In the afternoon Charles Ulrlch was taken be-
fore Commissioner kcasbey. Ho waived an
examination. md was committed 70 the Essex
County jail. The detectives said he had been
made n tool ot by Cole. who had invcigled him
into the c)unterieiting business. Ulrich told
Commissioner keashey and Capt, Curtis that he
was born in Prussia. and that ut the age OF IA he
was apprenticed to an engravrr. He became
very skillul ia tho business He went to Eng
land To avoid the draft. and afterward came TO
this city. He and sixteen others were induced
10y an English officer to 20 10 the Crimcn. They
were sent IN Boston, where they were kept in n
hotel and not allowed to appear in the streets
subsequently they were sent ON board steamer
one by one taken to Halifax thence to Nova
Scotia and Portsmouth. They were then sent to
tho Hasslcr Barracks. near Plymouth, from
whence they were transferred TO the Crimea.
| Light Brigade and participated In the charge
| OF the Six Hundred at Bqlaklava Ulrich de-
| scrihed his feelings when the brigade dashed at
| the Russian lines He said he WIS carried away
| with the excitement IA were HIS fellows, and he
| did not think OF danger. He WAS struck on the
| head with muSket by Russian soldier.
| His skull was crushed his side was pierced byA
| hay9nei and he was left for dead on the battle
Held, where Ire Law helpless for thirty.siN hours.
| He was then carried on by the English troops
| and placed In hospital He recovered. and
| WIS sent To England. He yet bears on his head
| ana body the marks Of the wounds he received
| in tho famous charge. He returned TO this city.
| and fell in with Jim Colyert a partner OF Coles
| who has recently got out 81 State Prison. and
| Colvert induced him L. engrave u vignctte. not
! telling him tor what purpose 1t was TO be used.
! power. and he was forced to engraye many
| plates for him. At one time they issued $4,000
| in 50 hauknotes. ana at another s2oO.uoO in $50
| notes were shipped t. Hamburg. Germany
| These notes. he said. werc given by brokers in
| Germany TO emigrauts who were coming to this
| country, and on their arrival the emigrants
| passed the notes for railroad fare. In this way
| the United States officers discovered that coun-
teriet $50 notes were being circulated in
Mrs. Cole who speaks with strong German
accent. said to q reporter for THE SUS: III
| rich tries 10 make my hus band tho guilty one.
| and the United States officers they use Ulrich
for witness. They say no was tool for my
when be wanted to. Well. tell something
about Ulrich. so you see whether he DO honest;
| He lived near Berlin when boy. and he learned
"a be great engrayer. He had to fly TO Ing
land in 1853. when IL years old. for a charge OF
| crooked IN England. and he fled to New \ ork in
500 where he, was arrested for tho English
| Governments. He would be sent 10 prison n he
dtd not go To the O. inca. lie came back TO New
York and got In with Jim Calvert. who lives in
Houston street. and made there 81 and - notes.
lie nuerward E9t caught ia Harlem making u
500 plate and hc was sent 10 sing Sing. whore
he married a keepers sister, Whom BE- got out
he got 50 rich that he bought lot Of property in
| Elizabeth. y j.. where he got married. see by
THE Sun to-day TINT he tries % get divorce
from that woman. Well. he has q dozen wives.
lie was sent 10 prison in Cincinnati. He got out
thrrc In 1873. and he wrote ant uskcd every
body for my husband. for he wanted money 10
start in the business again. He came TO Phila-
d"lphla. whore Ae found my husband very sick.
lie began 20 make counterfeit plptc- in village
near PHILADELPHIA, and % It not bee for mineseli
the whole country would be Hooded with bad
| money to-day. Ulrlch came to the house one
might with u carriage full 81 money. but
stopped him when he wanted b. put them out
eel. AMI SIu,ulel against people and tells lies IL
| clear himself