The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-06-10
COUNT RI laITBR9.
Some Interesting Developments
Made Recently.

Br0CkWay counterfeit case. In OfIeI III
story Is that about May 1st Samuel Eel
ker, who IL known here az q ,noet sue
cessful detective, gave . hint that b<
couli surrender an original transfer
plate OF the 81 900 six per cent. bonds Of
the issue Of 1881, if the case Of Doyle
then pending in the United States
Court here, could re continued: Felke'
went with the plate which he had poss-
ession OF, to Washington, and In comps'
ny with T.. B. Farwell and John G. New
who had examined 1t with experts, and
who endesvored to secure an interview
for Felker with Secretary Folger. He.
howeyr, ut first, refused to treat with
Felker. As . result. Felker Threatened
to take the plate to 1'ilden, Hewitt and
others. Under Farwell's represen:
tations, however, the detective waited
. few days and Folger, whose views
had changed during that time on &C
come to his knowledge, received Felix r
dOrsement from Mayor Harrison, Sher-
that gave him status ut once with the
have the experts OF the Bureau of En-
q. go SA'S P.s's0' Wv A"sS.
item, they being under suspicion Of
having given false testimony already in
the case in Chicago.
George Jones, president of the Column
bian Bank Note Company, for forty
years All engraver, then examined it
aud pronounce it genuine. Mr.. Neal,
IT the Treasury Department, I'm expert
in engraving, declared it genuine trans
fer work. Officer Lamb made the same
statement. The secret service officers
declared the plate counterfeit.
The experts told FOlger only one man
in Washington could say whether the
geametric lathe work was genuine, and
that was George Tichenor, who does all
that class of work. He examined it
with bis glass. and tools, and after much
knowing the importance of
his decision, declared the work genuine,
and that no human hand could have
done 1t in q life. No hand engraver
could have done 1t.
The officials Of the Bureau of En-
craving didn't know whether they had
the originals from which these impress
Mons were taken, but SUBSEQUENTLY said
that these vignettes and dies were de-
Dtroyed In 1890 in the presence of .
A report was found setting
lorth that fact, but the names Of
The signers were torn of: An extraor-
1inary unexplained circumstance was
hat the New York Bank Note Compa-
ny, which did the work had .
government receipt dated October.
l664, showing that the vignette
had been returned to the Govern
nent. 1t was between October l0el-5
hat the lead matrices or Impressions
must have been made, and Secretary
F0lGer had now an acknowledgment
rom the bureau Of engraving that they
md these dies during that period. The
'nttre statement Of Brockway and Fell
per h that these plates were purchased
rom IN accomplice outside the bureau.
vh0 10 not Damed. It Il said Brock wav
declared pootttvely that there was an |
understanding between the counterfeit |
~ and the officers Of the bureau. The !
ep0rts made to F0lger are that verv /
many more than the So, 900 bonds !
ound on Doyle, had been uttered. and
hat the three found at Peoria were a
art OF the one hundred thousand cir
ulaled ut Pueblo, Col. The statement
hat -, ON, 900 were issued is adhered
0, but the Secretary believes it only
~ ,OOO, and the three thousand ut Pe6-
Ia were all that they issued. It is be-
eved the Secretary has now very many
ecfet agents In the bureau of engraving
M printing and will try to avoid pull
Guy III the matter. Some of the per-
9ns charged with completely are now
ead, some have been removed and
ome are now in the service. The Sec
stary has advised the suspension of