Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-03-27
CONTEMPLATING.
WONDERFUL INGENUITY AND DELI
CACY or WORKMANSH
Splitting a Ten-Doilar Greenback in
HaIyrs- Method of Tracing; tho
Lines of ths Engraving: on

Uni.cd States D.:ective " e. Bauer re-
tur = from hemphis, announcing the con
v.ct,oi % the cei-trated counterfeiter Mar
tn D-.e ye urter found Detective Bauer
iR h.s 70 M surioun led by piles OF counter
lett ills AMI looking over the tools with
which the coInterieiter accomplished his
work. 10 The reporter he explained the pro-
c. IS, winch certainly display n wonderful
am ut Of ingenuity AMI delicate workman
shAp.
O., lie had procured genuine $40 bill and
sp.it this IA niives. this being in it~eif n re-
Il al sable operation. The two shests thus
made were thin that they we're tranSpar-
cnt lie made plate OF copper and brass,
little larger tnan the bill, AMI spread one
of the sheets on the top of If. With steel
tracing ijanyi. Of his own manufacture he
engraved through the sheet Its exact coun-
terpart "a the plate The other half was
engraved ON different plate in n similar
manner AMI then he was ready for printing
his spurious money. Tnis method OF work
manship looks very simple, but II is the first
zine it has been done by a counterfeIter, As
1t / a.most impossible to split the bill
The method always before used is as fol-
lows: TIE workman took, say, a SO bill,
a..d spread over II a piecs Of transparent
ge.atine paper, and traced the figures of the
former ON tho latter The metal plate was
next put ia use and was coated with solu-
ton II shellac. On this the gelatine paper
was pasted, and when torn Off it left on the
shellar the outline of its figures. BY follow
ing these IN the solution they were also
traced in delicate lines on the plate. The
sLellac then beng wa he'd of the latter they
could lie cut 10 the right depth, AMI the
cuuatcrieitcr was ready for his WORK. Osls's
methods o5ViEtei these three or four methods
ami rendering the engraving on the pate
far m, Re accurate, Us the correctness OF
tie lines was necessarily lost through sC
many transfers This man thus accom-
p.4se q piece OF work alone AMI unalded,
W.T. tools of las own manufacture, when
tie national government paid over SiO0,O0J
for steam machine To do the same thing.
Detective Bauer showed Ogle'S toolS. whlcii
were fitted TO rough wooden handles, but
possessed points as shars as steel lie aiso
displayed the genuine ILL split in two sheets,
ami perfectly transparent He hal on
table several packages o: bills Of Osie 5 man
uiac;ure. amounting m all u $50 Oco, an tens
ami twen:Ies They We're sill on the Third
National Bank If Cincinnati, but the naw
plates were intended Tor the Qaeen City
tank.
%. e." said Detective Bauer, Us the first
man who has issued any spurious money
during the last SIX years, and be has shown
an almost une xampled skill ami astutenes<
His brother. who has been returned 10 tie
Pennsylvania renitentitry, knew nothing
al,,u; ;his Workmanship, but was merely
kind u head .ervant 10 Martin. Tue latter
dill all his wcr.s IN a tiatboat. and scattered
Tia. money chiefly at river points. liz
turn. Over TO me IN al slSb, 900 II aGou;
IL, test cuUn;crteIt.ns l ever saw.