The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-11-12
TRAPPED.
One OF the Most Notorious Gangs of
Counterfeiters- Broken Up-Arrest of All
the Members with Their stock i'm Trade.


NEW YORK, Nov. 10.-For some time past
Inspector Bryne has had under surveillance
VIM. e. Brockwsy, Nathaniel S. Foster and
Lewis Martin, three of the most noted counter
letters in the country. Brockway under the
name of Spencer was living at boarding
house on West 18th street kept by Mrs. Gill
bert, who was reported to be his wife, Martin
occupid room at the st. James Hotel and
Foster lived at boarding house on Lexington
Avenue Brockway daily visited the offices
of the bankers, lithographers and printers
Last week they were seen carrying several
packages into the house on Lexington Avenue.
Yesterday morning search warrants were OBJ
taiped, services of the United States secret
service officers secured and it was determined
TO make Simultaneous raid on the three
places named. Brockway was followed on
leaving the Lexington ave. house and arrested
when getting off an Elevated railroad train at
Houston street. The detectives subsequently
obtained entrance to the Lexington Avenue
house where they arrested Martin and Foster.
AT the same hour other detectives raided Mar
tin room in the st. James Hotel, and Brock
ways room on Eleventh street, and in each of
these places they found counterfeiting imple-
ments. In Lexington avenue were found dies
SS@AApo' Piosoe, typo dHu Uabterl6b. Iu6 type
was set up, and it was found the counterfeiters
had already struck off spurious 81, 900 per
cent. construction mortgage bonds, due in
1901, of the Morris & Essex division of the
Delaware, Lackawanna q Western Railroad
Co., and 81 900 per cent. gold bearing bonds
(sesies b of the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany. Even the United States internal reye-
nue. stamps on the counterfeit bonds were also
counterfeits. It is believed by the poiice that
some OF the spurious bonds have already been
placed on the market. Brockway is native
OF Connecticut, 81 years of age. He is
printer and electrotyper by profession, and he
studied chemistry under Prof. Silliman of
Yale College.
In 1858 he obtained an impression in lead
OF the genuine plate of bills OF the State bank
OF Connecticut, and printed 100000 in SIS
notes. Since that time he has been repeatedly
connected with some of the heaviest counter
feitieg bureaus in the country. There were
TWO indictments found against him in the
U United States District Court in Brooklyn not
long ago for forging and counterfeiting, and he
pieaded guilty, but sentence was suspended in
consideration of his surrender of the bond and
note plates and information concerning other
be was warned, however, that
II detected in any further coanterfeiting
schemes he would be sentenced on the
old Indictment to 80 years imprisonment
Lewis Martin, alias Luther r. Martin, alias
Martin Luther, is 60 years old. In 1875 he
vas indicted in the United States District
COURT of the Western Division OF Penn
syl1ania for manufacturing counterfeit
SoOO.OO United States notes, but was
never tried. He was at one time a member
Of the New YorK Jockey Club and is known
on all the racing tracks of the country. Foster
. 40 years old and native of Bradford, III,
bis father and brothers are counterfeiters and
ne himself has been one since youth.