The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-06-07
NEWS
BOGUS BONDS.
Strange Story srstOlen Plates


Chicago, 6.-WAshinRton specials this
morning, report sensational develop
ments in the Doyle-BrOckway bond
counterfeit case. In brief, the story il
that about May let, Samuel Felker, who
is known here ss q very successful detect
i've, gave q hint that be could surrender
al original transfer plate Of the 81 900
per cent. bonds, of the issue OF 81, If
the case of Doyle, then pending in the
United States court here, could be
continued. Felker went with the
plate which he had possession
of, to Warrington, ard in company with
g. B. FarWell, and Johu G. New, who
had examined it with experts. and they
tried to secure sn interview for Felker
with FOlger, who, however, IT fused at
first to treat with Felker. As result
Felker threatened TO take the plate to
Tilden, Hewitt. Randall and others.
Under FarWell's repres entationf, how
ever, the detective waited few days and
Folger, whese views had changed during
that time on account of rome startling
facts that had come to his knowledge,
received Felker, who displayed letters of
hearty endorsement from Mayor Harri-
son, Sheriff Mann, Senator Logan and
others that gave him a status at once
With the secretary. The secretary de-
sired to have experts Of the bureau of
engraving examine the plate, but Felker
objected to that gang" as he called
them, they being under suspicion of haV-
ing given false testimony already in the
case in Chicago. Geo. Jones, president of
the Colum biAn Bank Note Company, for
forty years an eDgrsver, then examined
it and pronounced it genuine. Mr. Neal,
of the treasury, an expert in engraving,
declared it genuine transfer work. Officer
Lamb made the lame statement. The
secret service, meantime, declared the
Folger that only one man in Washing
ton could say whether the geOmetrIc
lathe work was genuine, and he was
George Tichenor, who does all that class
of work. He examined it with his glass
aud tools, and after much hesitation,
knowing the Importance Of his decision,
declared the work genuine, and chat no
human hand could have done it in 8 life
time; no hand engrGver could have done
1t. The officials of the bureau Of enRrAv-
ing dida't know whether they had the
originals from which these impressions
we're taken, but subsequently said these
viEnettes and dies were destroyed
in 1869, and 1870 in the prete2ce
of committee. A report was found
setting forth that fact, but the names Of
the signers were torn off, an extraordi-
nary, unexplained circumstance. The
bank note company, of New York,
which did the work, had q government
receipt dated October, '64, showing that
the vignette had been eturnei to govern
ment. It as between October, '64, and
10, the lead matrices or impressions
must have been made, and Secretary
Folger had now an acknowledgment
FROM the bureau of engraving that they
bad these dies during that period. The
entire statement of Brockwsy and Felker
is that these plates we're purchased from
an accomplice, outside the bureau, who
is not named. It is said Brockway de-
clared positively there was an under
standing between the counterfeiters and
the officers Of the bureau. The
reports made to Folger are
that very many more than
the 500, 900 bonds found on Doyle have
been uttered; that the three foVnd at Pc
oria we're q part OF ZOE, 900 circulated At
Pueblo, Colorado. The statement that
S22, OOO, 600 were inued is adhered to, but
the secretary believes only 1904, 900 and
and the s., 600 at Peoria we're ell that
they issued. II is believed the secretary
has now very many secret agents in the
bureau of engraving and printing, and
will try to avoid publicity in the matter.
Some Of the persons charged with COM
Dlicity are dead, some have been re-
moved and some are now in the service.
he secretary has advised suspension of
Doyle's sentence in Chicago.