Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-07
BRoCKwAY AND THE BONDS.
why Doyle Was Released Curious Piece
Of Secret Detective Work.

OF Secret Detective Work.
CHICAGO, June 6.-From q Washington
special there are sensational development In
the Doyle.Brockway bond counterfeit case.
In brief, the story is that about May 1, Sam
ael Felker, who is known here as a very sue
cessful detective, gave hint that he could
surrender an original transfer plate OF the
81 900 per cent. bonds Of the issue of 1881,
I the case of Day, then pending In the United
States court here, could be continued.
Mr.. Felker went with the plate which he
had possession of to Washington, and in
company with G. B. Farwell and John Chew,
who had examined it with experts. and they
tried TO secure an interview for Felker, with
Folger, who, however, refused at first to treat
with Folger. As result Felker threatened
to take the plate to Tilden, Hewitt, Randall
and others. Under Farwell's representations,
however, the detective waited few days,
and Felker. whose views had changed during
that time on account of some startling facts
that had come to his knowledge, received
Felker, who displayed letters of hearty
Mann, Senator Logan, and others, that gave
him status at once with the secretary. The
secretary desired 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 and having given
false testimony already in the case in Chicago.
Geo. Jones, president of the Columbia bank,
for forty years an engravcr, then examined
it and pronounced it genuine transfer work.
Mr.. Lamb made the same statement. The
secret service officers meantime declared the
plate counterfeit.
The experts told FOlger that only one man
in Washington could say whether the geome-
try lathe work was genuine, and he was Geo.
Tichenor, who does all that class of work. He
examined it with his glass and tools and after
much hesitation, knowing the Importance of
his decision, declared the work genuine; that
no human hand could have done it in life
time; no hand engraver could have done it.
The officials of the bureau of engraving didn' t
know whether they had the originals from
which these impressions were taken, but
subsequently, said these vignettes and
dies we re destroyed in 1869 and 1870 in pres.
ence of com mittee. h report was found
setting forth that fact but the names of the
signers were torn off-an extraordinary I'M
explained circumstance The bank note
company OF New York, which did the work,
had a government receipt dated Oct. 1854,
showing. that the vignettes had been returned
1864 and 1870 that the lead matrices or i'm
pressions must have been made and Secretary
Folger has now an acknowledgement from
the bureau of engraving that they had these
dies during that period. The entire statement
of Brockway and Felker is that the plates
were purchased from an accomplish inside
the bureau, who is not named.
It is said that Brockway declared positively
that there was an understanding between the
counterfeiters and the officers Of the bureau.
The reports made to Folger that very much
more than the twenty $4,000 bonds found on
Doyle had been uttered; that the three found
at Peoria were part of 100000 circulated at
Pueblo, Colorado. The statement that $22,.
OOO, 600 were issued is adhered to, but the sec.
rotary believes the twenty 1000 and the 81, 0OC
at Peoria were all that were issued.
It is believed that the secretary has now
very many secret agents in the bureau OF Ell,
craving and printing and will try to avoid
publicity in the matter. Some Of the persons
charged with completely are dead; some have
been relieved and some are now in the service
The secretary has advised the suspension OIL
DOyie's sentence ia Chicago.