The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-02-17
Rather Uncertain Bonds.

A BOUT thirteen years ago man
n named Spencer, alias Brockwell,
was arrested and taken before United
States commissioner in Newark, New
Jersey, charged with counterfeiting and
uttering the United States one Thou
sand dollar seven-thirty bond. The
commissioner, upon hearing the evil
dence, ordered that the prisoner he held
to answer before the United States dis
trict court, or give bond in $10,O ,O0O that
he could call upon to go his security,
and so the United States marshal hav-
ing him In custody said, "Come along
then, you must lie imprisoned.
Mrs. Spencer, alias Brockwell, the
prisoners wife, gentle, smart-looking
woman who was present, became greatly
distressed at the prospect of parting
with her husband.
Said the gentleman's spouse "Mr.Ofi
Ger, can't you receive deposit of a few
hundred dollars as security for the forth
coming of my husband 7" "No, num-"
said the custodian, "but If you'll just
which of course you can't well be glad
to part with your husband"
''Thereat the face of the good wife
dropped, and there was CONSERVATION
depicted in the countenances of both
husband and wife. They whispered to-
gether in the corner of the room, and
then with a long-drawn sigh, Mrs.
Spencer said "we'll put the money up;
just turn your back to me-" The officer
turned away, as requested, when the lit
tie woman whipped up her crinoline,
and took from bundle attached thereto
ten genuine one thousand dollar United
States bonds.
"There, sir" she said, "don't lose
them, for l expect to call for that prop
erty some of these days"
And she did that same, few years
thereafter, when, by statute of limita-
ton her husband was relieved from the
charge.
He was not tried, because he was be-
coming continually valuable Ton prom
ises of favor by the officers of the law)
by divulgements, which in time led to
the capture of the plates from which
the alleged counterfeits were printed;
the manner of obtaining impressions
from the genuine plate in the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing; the name of
the man in that bureau who, he alleges,
took the impressions from the genuine
Government plate, and which man, by
the bye, is there employed now.
Some time after the arrest of Spencer
the United States Treasurer received
from the New York firm of Jay Cooke
& Co., package of bonds, in which
were eighty $1,000 seven-thirty bonds.
These eighty thousand dollar securities
were by the Treasurer, rejected as coun-
terfeit, and it was claimed that they
were of the batch, lover three millions
dollars face value,) made by the before
mentioned alleged counterfeiter.
Jay Cooke & Co. refused to make good
the rejected bonds, that firm and many
of the best experts claiming that these
securities were printed from engravings
made from impressions taken from the
original engraving in the Treasury De
partment.
The government brought suit against
Jay Cooke 4 Co., long trial was had,
in which some of the Oldest and best en-
gravers in the country testified that
Jay Cooke & Co. were justified in
their defense; that the alleged counter
n.
feits were printed from engravings made
from impressions taken from original
plates. The verdict of the jury was
against the bankers, but neither expert
engravers nor bankers were ever recon-
ciied to the result of that trial, and the
question has thus stood undecided.