The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-08
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Developments in the Gas,
the Noted CounterfeIfer

oCHSshAAuAAsAA DcNClOpHlcHJS IN TIE case OIL
the Noted COunterfeIter.
CHICAGO, June Ga Washington
special says that this morning the fol-
lowing report OF sensational develop
ments in the Brockway counterfeit case.
were made: About May 1st, Samuel
Felker, who is known here AS very
successful detective, gave hint that he
could surrender an original transfer
plate of the 81 600 six per cent bonds of
the issue of 1881, if the case of Doyie,
then pending in the United States court
here, could be continued. Fclker sent
the plate he had possession of TO Wash
ington, in company with q. B. Farwell
and John Crew, who had examined the
plate with experts, and they tried TO Sc
cure an interview for Felker with Fol-
ger, who, however, refused at first to
tIeat with Felker. AS result Felker
threatened to take the plate TO Tilden,
Hewitt, Randall and others.
Under Farwell's representations, how
ever, the detective waited a few days,
and Folger, whose views had changed
during that time on account of some
startling facts which had come TO his
knowledge, received Felker, who dis
played letters OF hearty endorsement
from Mayor Harrison, Sheriff Mann,
Senator Logan and others that gave him
a status at once with the secretary. The
secretary desired 10 have experts of the
bureau of engraving examine the plate,
but Felker objected to that gang, as he
called them, they being under suspi-
cion, having given false testimony in
the case at Chicago.
Geo. Jones, president of the Column
ban bank note company, and for forty
years an engraver, then examined il and
pronounced ii genuine. Mr. Neal, of
the treasury, an expert in engraving,
declared it genuine transfer work. Mr.
Lamb made the same statement. Secret
service officers meantime declared the
plate counterfeit. The experts told
Folger only one man in Washington
could say whether the geometrical lathe
work WAS genuine, and he was George
fichnor. who does all that class of work
lie examined il with his glass and tools,
and after much hesitation, knowing the
Importance OF his decision, declared the
work genuine, and said that no human
hand could have done il in life time
No hand engraver could have done 1t
The officials of the bureau of eneraV:
ing did not know whether they had the
originals from which these impressions
were taken, but subsequently said these
vignettes and dies were destroyed in
1869 and 1870 in the presence OF IL com
mittee.
A report was found setting forth that
fact, but the names of the signers were
torn off, an extraordinary unexplained
circumstance. The Bank Note company
of New York, which did the work, had
government receipt, dated October,
1854, showing that the vignette had been
returned to the government. 1t was be
tween October, 1864, and 1870 the lead
matrices or impressions must have been
made, and Secretary Folger has now an
acknowledgement from the bureau of
engraving that they had these dies dur
ing the period. The entire statement of
Brockway and Felker is that these
plates were purchased from an accom-
plice inside the bureau, who is not
named.
- II is said that Brockway declared pos
itively there was an understanding be-
tween the counterfeiteTs and the officers
of the bureau. The reports made to
FOlger are that very many more than
the 204, 900 bonds found on Doyle have
been altered; that the three found at
Peoria were part of the 100000 circu-
lated at Pueblo, Colorado. 1t is be-
lieVed the secretary has now very many
secret agents in the bureau of engraving
and printing, and will try to avoid pub
licity in the matter. Some of the per-
sons charged with completely are dead,
some have been removed and some are
now in the service. The secretary has
advised the suspension of Doyle's SEN
tence in Chicago.