National Republican., 1883-09-19
oHINAMEN AS CoUNTERFEITERs.
Manufacturers Rather Than Circulators--
A Preference for Coin.

In the "rogue's gallery" of the United
States secret service, situated in one of the
upper corridors of the treasury department
building, are exhibited hundreds of photo
graphs of counterfeiters assistants, and
Showers" who have been arrested from time
to time in all parts of the country. In
glancing over the leaves of one of the secret
service albums last evening,
REPUBLICAN reporter noticed the
pictures of several Cinnamon mixed indis-
criminately with those of Africans, Celts,
Teutons, Americans, and representatives of
every people of the globe. Proceeding to the
office of Chief Brooks the reporter asked:
"What were those Cinnamon arrested for,
principallyW
" For counterfeiting silver coin," he re-
piled; "because while they are naturally
pretty fair artists, they would prove misera-
Bile failures as 'utterers' of counterfeits. This
is due to the fact that they are not as glib
takers rs their more civilized brother, the
Mclean man. who can almost pass brass but
tons on street car conductors rs gold half
eagles"
"Then Cinnamon make pretty fair coin
counterfeiters
mo There are very few fair counter
feiters," he replied, with merry twinkle of
his piercing gray eyes, but they are up to
the average of bungling soft metal counter
feiters, who manufacture botch limitations
with hand dies, which they carry in their vest
pockets, giving our detectives much trouble"
"What kind of metal is generally used by
the latter class, including our almond eyed,
pig tailed brothrenY queried the reporter.
This kind" he replied. exhibiting bar of
shining metal, which very much resembled
solder. 81 don't know anything about its
composition, only that soft metal predomi-
mates"
"Have you captured any Cinnamon coun-
terfeiters recentlyW
mot very recently, but we pick one and
sometimes pair of them up occasionally,
and have quite number of them putting
in time in the western penitentiaries for
being seduced by the tinsel and crooked art
of making money faster than the law al
| lows"
Referring to the manufacture of adverts-
| ing limitations of fractional currency being
printed by firms throughout the United
States the chief said that orders had been
issued to suppress such manufactures, as they
are unlawful. In each case the dies and all
printed material are seized and destroyed.
One of the latest seizures and arrests
was that of Cossack 81 Co., of Buffalo, N.
| Y, who were issuing pictorial designs
| for patent medicine firm containing fac
SMILES of the old 25 and 80 cent notes. Over
10000 of the designs and the dies were seized
| by the detectives. In the same city party
| who advertised himself as an instructor of
the art of detecting counterfeit money" was
arrested, with several thousand dollars OF
crooked currency on his person. He claimed
| that he used the counterfeit money to make
comparisons with the real, and thus educate
the people, but the authorities took another
| view of the matter, and held that it was a dan
gerous precedent to allow any individual to
carry such collection of the queer about
with him. The secret service is almost daily
in receipt of specimens Of advertising money.
In one case miserably executed imitation,
issued as an advertisement for an eastern
business college, was received, and from its
soiled and worn appearance had evidently
been in circulation among backwoodsmen or
others for some time. The habit of manu-
featuring this class of limitations is unlawful
and will be fully suppressed by the govern
| ment