The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-03-28
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Washington Cor. Boston Traveller.
On the floor Of the treasury building
are the headquarters Of the Secret Ser
vice officers: I called there yesterday
afternoon and had an interesting chat
with Mr.. Knight, a Massachusetts, man,
by the way, and one of the most cap
\ bic and efficient officials in the service,
He took me into a small room, around
which were hung the trophies captured
from counterfeiters. In one corner was
an immense sectional s'jimmy' used by
burglars, and near by small press
used in the printing of bank and Nation
al notes. Saddle: "The operations of
the corps of Secret Service detectives
extend all over the country.
There is not q city or hamlet i in the
United States which is not liable to re-
celve q visit from n or more of the
forty men who are constantly on the
watch to suppress the counterfeiting of
the coin and paper money. The moye-s
ments of our officers. aresof course, from
the very na~tureSand danger of the work
they are engaged, kept in the strictest
secrecysseIheya wears nolbadge,snorsdo
they even carry a document showing
that they are in any way connected with
the service. Oftentimes months and
months are taken in the detection of a
single case, and when a man has once
been convicted of counterfeiting, or Of
passing counterfeit money, he is never
out of the reach of our eyes.
TO show how successful we have
been i'll suppressing counterfeits, l can
tell you that we have not seen q new is
sue of bad money for over two years
and q half. In That safe which you see
there, there are one million dollars in
counterfeit paper money, and about
$500 900 in bad coin. This sample book
in which you see pasted bank and
national notes, with the word bad
punched out in each, contains $25 ,O00,
and we have here the histories and pho
togpaphs Of S2ss500 criminals, perhaps
ten per cent. ofsrhich ares women
William q. Brockway is the most not
able person IN the eEtire collection.
He is called the King of Counterfeiters,
and occupies the first place in the
album.
Next to him are his two pals, Doyle,
the man who's passes the money, and
Charles Z. Smith, the most expert en-
graver of crooked" work insElae coun-,
try. In all their operations Brockway
furnished the money, laid ont the plans
and was the brains of the gang. Doyle
passed the "staff," and Smith was the
engrayer. Doyle is now serving a
twelve years. sentence in the Illinois
state prison. Brockway was captured
SOM eight weeks ago on the charge Of
counterfeiting some railroad bonds,
samples of which we have here in this
office. Smith engraved the famous
plate from which the $1,000. seven-thir-
ty bond Of the issue Of '65a was printed,
and $50, 900 worth of it was actually
before it was discovered to be a coun-
terfeit.
''The impression was SO goodthat the
experts were unable to'determine weth-
er the bonds were genuine or counterfeit,
and the matter was only decided when
the Government issue bearing the du-
plicate numbers came back for redemp-
ton. Smith also engraved what is
known as the Hamilton fifty-dollar
greenback. and the one hundred-dollar
note on different banks, which are the
finest known of these series. Several
years ago very shrewd dodge was
played by one of Smiths confederatcs
on r. A. White & Co., of Boston. "A
woman entered their store and looked
at some very expensive shawls. Final
ly, she made up. her mind to take one,
and rendered o thousand-dollar bill in
payment.
"The clerk took the money to the
cashier, who sent it to the bank to find
out whether it was genuine or not. The
answer came that the bill was good be-
yond the shadow of q doubt. Then the
clerk said that the shawl wonld be sent
to the woman's address but she proceed
ed 20 get very angry, and said if they
could not take her money without ques-
ton that she would go elsewhere, and
she founced out of the store in q great
rage. About an hour afterward she re-
turned and told the clerk that she visit
ed other places, but that she had been
unable to find o shawl which suited her
as we'll as the one she had left in their
establishment. She sud she would take
it with her, and rendered q one
thousand dollar bill in payment. The
shawl was valued at 5000, and the
woman took it away with her, together
with $500 in change. The bill first
rendered was genuine, the second was a.
counterfeit, and the tirm..swass inst a
thousand dollars out ofspocket. Smith
engraved the plate from which this
counterfeit note was printed, and it
was so nearly perfect that only q min
ute examination world have caused de-
lection. Smith also engraved the plate
from which the n thousand-dollar
six per cent. bonds were printed. but we
captured tho entire issue on Doyle in
Chicago, amounting in all to two hun
dred aud four thousand dollars. A
curious thing about his arrest by our
detectives was the fact that they took
him suspecting that he had the old
counterfeit one-hundred dollar bills in
his possession, when imagine their sur
prise they found a new bond. 1t will
be several years before we shall have to
look after MI. Doyle again. Next to
Smith the best sengraver Of counterfeit
money is Charlas Ulrich, who servedsa
term Of nine years in Il of our North
ern prisons. He is now in Germany.
George White is another expert Of note.
He stands accredited with the best
counterfeit fve-dollar bank note issued,
and but few people are able ito detect
them. The counterfeit is on the
Merchants National Bank
of News Bedford, Mass.
Here 8 anctSre 81 George Albert
Mason, q notR connterfeiter who came
from England to This country and en-
gagged in his business. He was arrested,
tried, convicted and served nine years
in prison but he is now at liberty, and