River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08
The New Counterfeit Bill.

bill which has created such a stir in
financial circles recently is now found
to be the production of the notorious
Charles Ulrich, German engraver,
who served ten years in the Columbus,
O., penitentiary, for making Sl00
counterfeit plate in 1866 or 1867. He
is said to be one ofthe most skillful en-
gravers in the country. While i'll Col
ufnbus prison he engraved lIfe-size
portrait of Coy William Allen, which
was pronounced most skillful piece
of engraving and an excellent likeness
of the governor. As soon rs Charlie"
got out of prison he returned to his old
tricks. In 1873 there appeared III Eu-
rope 100000 of American 500 coun-
terfeit notes They were bought with
gold by Hamburg bankers and passed
to emigrants coming to this country be-
fore their counterfeit character was dis
covered. With the stamp of Hamburg
bankers on them they were brought to
this country and passed by the emf
grants. A carload of these emigrants
from Castle Garden were arrested near
Pittsburg for passing those counterfeits.
Two Americans were arrested in Vienna
and convicted of having sold the coun-
terfeits to Hamburg bankers. 1t was
finally discovered that Charles Ulrich
made the plate from which the notes
were printed. The secret service de
partment sent out their detectives to as
certain the whereabouts of Ulrich and
arrest him. He was finally, in Novem-
Der. 1873. found and arrested in farm
house not far from Paterson, n. j.
Brooks was then, rs now, chief of the
secret service, and was assisted in max
ing the arrest by Curtis, chief operative
in New York city. In Ulrichs possess
sion was found the plate or engraving
for making 800 notes which the emi-
grants had passed in this country. He
was brought here, interviewed by the
department and told all he knew about
the methods of making and ''pushing"
these counterfeits. Brooks had Ulrich
taken back and placed in the Essex
county jail at Newark. Ulrich's evil
dence was used to convict the capital
lists who were back of him. Ulrich, in
consideration of his evidence, was re-
eased, subject to rearrest and SEN
tence in case of his again in
fringing the law. An old accom-
pIice, Harry Cole. of Philadelphia, was
subsequently arrested for furnishing the
paper for the notes, and is now serving
out ten-years' sentence in the Albany
penitentiary. The records of the secret
service division show that over five
hundred persons have been convicted
and sentenced for passing Ulrich's
counterfeits Correspondence on file
in the state department between Min
lister KassOn and the treasury depart
ment, gives the details of the arrest of
two americans in Europe for passing
Ulrich's counterfeits on the Hamburg
bankers. There is little doubt that the
counterfeits now in circulation are
made from electroypes from the en-
engraving taken from Ulrich in 1873. A
part of his method undoubtedly is to en-
grave plate of the desired note, from
which electrotypes are made. Then
if he is taken he can confess his crime
and give up his plate, retaining his
electrotypes for future use. The notes
just discovered differ from his old coun-
terfeits only in that they are on differ
ent banks The groundwork of the
note is the same. When he found that
his counterfeit of particular bank was
detected and exposed he swiftly changed
the name Of the bank, and in this way
succeeded in pushing great amount
of his notes into circulation.
Last evening, just before shutdown,
says the Virginia New Chronicle,
gentleman who was sitting by his win
dow on North B street casually remark
ed
There goes the woman that George
Browns dead gone on"
His wife, who was in back room
getting supper ready, dropped a plate
on the floor, stumbled over the baby,
and ran like quarter-horse to the win
dow with
Where? where tell me quick"
''The one with the long cloak-just at
the corner"
Then the woman at the window saiG
in tones of deep disgust:
why, that's Browns wife.
"Yes, exactly" remarked the brutal
husband, quietly.
Then the disappointed women went
back and got supper ready, but her usu-
ally-sweet disposition was soured for the
entire evening.
The arrival in England of a survivor
of the Cabul massacre has afforded
reflections to those most init
mateiy concerned. On the arrival }
the British army in Cabul city, one of
the first discoveries was that of Sir Louis
china-pug dog Altogether
adrift and unnoticed, his well-known
pet had escaped the turbulent Afghans.
it may be imagined that such a mem
ento. at once recognized, was zealously
cared for, and transmitted on the first
to England Unluckily,
the evidence Of the surviving eye-wit
ness is a sealed book.