Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-22
AN ImPORTANT SCOOP.


Piece Uf Detective Work.
NEW YORK, Nov IL.
VIM. e. Brockway, James Doyle and
Charles H. Smith, professional forgers and
counterleiters, were arrested in Brooklyn
Oh October %, 1880, for forging 81 900 six
per cent. coupon bonds of the United
States. Doyle was sent to prison for
twelve years. Smith turned States evil
dence and Brockway was sentenced to
thirty years. imprisonment Sentence was
suspended ON his undertaking to surrender
all the plates for forging United States
bonds which he had in his possession or the
whereabouts of which he knew, and other
counterfeiting apparatus, and to give what
Information LIE could in regard to the pro-
fession of forgery. He was told that if he
was ever rearrested in the United States for
practising forgery, the thirty years. sem
tence which was suspended, would go into
effect. Brockway dug up lot OF plates
and turned them over to tho Government,
as per contract, and disappeared. Two
months ago Detectives Mangin and Cos
grove discovered that he was making daily
visits to a boarding house at 2S1
Lexington Avenue, where he met
Nathaniel D. Foster and Louis
Martin, both counterfeiters and forgers.
Inspector Byrnes suspected that Brockway
was at his old trade and ordered Detectives
Mangin, Cosgrove and Head to watch him
and his two confederates. A room was
procured in the neighborhood of the Lex
ington avenue clearinghouse, and the de-
tectives took turns in watching the suspect
ed premises with an opera-glass. Brock
way, on leaving the house in Lexington av-
enue one day, was traced to a fiat at 30
West Eleventh. He went under the name
of Spencer, and passed as a boarder. The
woman, who passed as Mrs. Gilbert, the
landlady, proved to be Brockway's wife.
Inspector ByFnes hired a room in West
Eleventh street, opposite the place where
lBrocl1way lived and directed Detectives
lSIevin, McCIosky and Richard Field to
watch him. They learned that he spent
hours at the st. James hotel, where Martin
lived, About month ago they picked up a
letter which he tore to pieces after descend
ing the stairs with Martin, with whom he
had been consulting for long time. The
fragments of the letter on being put to-
gether showed that Brockway, Martin
and Foster we're engaged in wholesale for
gerry. On Saturday Inspector Byrnes OBJ.
tanned search warrants and arranged a
simultaneous descent on the houses in
Eleventh street and Lexington avenue.
BrockwaY, who had just left Lexington av-
enue when the descent was made, was
caught on the elevated railroad. In the
Lexington avenue house the detectives
found plates, stamps, dies and every other
thing necessary for forging money and
Essex Railroad 81, 900 seven per cent. con-
tstruction bonds, payable in 1901, and Gen.
trial Pacific Railroad Company $1,000 six
per cent. gold-bearing bonds, series B.
Stamps intended for both bonds, including
the London stamp of the last named, were
also found. A large number of the bonds
lalready printed were seized, and there
was also captured the set up type used to
print the certificates on the back of the
Central Pacific bonds. There were also
seized eighteen sets of type for each Of the
eighteen coupons. Type set up for other
parts of the bonds, together with the fig
ures used for printing the scrolls, were
captured.
A genuine bond also was found and ths
counterfel5s were as genuine looking.
Chief Drummond, by means of micro
Scope, discovered that the revenue stamps
ION the bonds were a forgery. In the fiat on
West Eleventh street the detectives found
comparatively little to prove that forgery
had been attempted, but in room So in the
iSt. James Hotel, the room which Martin
has been occupying for nearly year past,
sergeant Slevin found twenty-one counter
felt Morris and Essex Railroad Company
$1,000 per cent. mortgage construction
jbonds. All these bonds wanted was the
signatures OF the President and Treasurer
ito be put upon the market. The signatures
would soon have been added. Sam Sloan,
President of the company, writes with a
quill and bundle of q ills, ready for use,
were wrapped up in the bundle of bonds.
iThirty-three more bonds not yet numbered
land also unsigned were also found in Mar
tins room. In Brockway's pockets were
found 81 goo per cent. construction bond
of the Morris 81 Essex Railroad and a ST ,O0O6
per cent. gold-bearing Central Pacific Rail-
road bond, series B, No. 326. The bonds
are believed to be genuine. The prisoner,
Lewis Martin, is believed to be the capital
list of the gang just arrested. He is sixty
years old, and is a fine-loolzing man, whose
face is familiar to the frequenters of race
tracks East and West. He had handsome
trooms at the st. James Hotel, and was ac-
tquainted with wealthy and reputable
jhorsemen and sporting men. He was
formerly, it is said, member OF
ithe Jockey club. In his possession were
found a number of letters and papers
Showing his connection with the counter.
tfeiters' gang. Other letters showed his in.
tterest in horse racing and extensive ac
tquaintance with reputable horse owners
Throughout the country. Other letters, II
ithey are genuine, indicate that he was
being in the form of recommendations from
railroad presidents and other officials tC
lotherS in the same line or business, anC
ispeaking of Martin as a capable person anC
one TO be trusted. In 1875 he was indicted
in the United States Court of the Western
district Of Pennsylvania as an accomplish
of Henry MalCil, alias Sweet, in passing
counterfeit $500 notes. He was never tried
Previous to that time Inspector Byrnes says
he has been known as an engraver anC
printer of counterfeits under the name o
Martin Luther. Nathaniel B. Foster, th'
third prisoner, is about forty years old, ant
q native OF Bradford, III. BE was pal o
Theodore Shotwell, alias Tom King, wht
died recently in Greenland, Col. Sine
the latter's death Foster has been passing
Jas the husband Of Shotwell's sister, Mrs
Blakely.
Brockway is a native OF Connecticut
fsixty-One years of age. He is a printer an
telectrotyper by profession; studied chem
listry under Prof. Silliman of Yale College
I'm 1853 he obtained an impression on lea
Of genuine plate of bills Of the State Ban
of Connecticut, and printed q hundre
Thousand dollars in hve-dollar notes. Sine
that time he has been repeatedly counecte
tS,yfEE ~ he at