Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
Sixth and Cumberland streets IN th,s

oiA'n ana Cumberland streets IN this
Guy. A man named Henry G. Cole
was MS business partner, and Jacob
wi, a German photographer, did the
printing. In 1877 Ulrich went to live
with the OFT family at Oak Lane on the
north Penn Railroad, and there finished
Ihe plate OF a fifty-dollar counterfeit.
IN the same house the bills were
printed. These were limitations of bills
on the Central National Bank of New
lork City and the Third National Bank
OF Buffalo, N. Y. 1t so happens, also.
that all the fifty dollar National bank
counterfeits, including eight different
banks in the State of New York-seven
OF Which We're in the city-were printed
rom one engraved plate. The simple
change from one bank to another was
done by the use of skeleton plates.
One hundred thousand dollars
worth of these tifties was printed in
Otis house. The greater part of them
was sold by Cole and carried to Ger
many by j. E. Conkling and John
Baker and there passed off on the
banker and people. None of them
were put in circulation in the United
states before they had been circulated
IN Germany, nor until a large number
OF them were brought back all at once
to New York by immigrants on the
German steamer Herder, May %, 1873.
The discovery was made by w.
hoffman, the expert at the office of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at
which Office a tifty-dollar bill on the
National Broadway Bank, of New York
City, had been rendered by a MI.
Joseph. He claimed to have received
the bill from Israel & Co., bankers at
Hamburg, and the emigrants on the
Herder were soon found passing SINH
lar counterfeits. Subsequently each
steamer from Germany brought GUAM
titles of these bills, which were showed
IN Europe until the capture at Munich
OF D. b.. Conkling and his associates"
care there any other methods of
counterfeiting besides photography and
engrayingp"
20 yes; but they are easily detected,
being generally clumsily executed.
There are Autographs, etchings, and
pen-work counterfeits. Spurious n
dollar and two dollar United
States Treasury notes are of this
kind, and it is only on account
OF their small denomination that
they have any circulation. Then,
again, the vignette heads arc OCCASION
ally cut from notes OF small value. the
back removed and the face neatly
cemented owe the inferior work Of
poor counterfeit 1ifties, which are thus
made passable.n
GLOW are the public to discriminate
between genuine bills and %forgeries?"
swell, of course, therein lies the
possibility of successful forgeries. If
the general public was so well ac-
quainted with the appearance of genu-
inc bills as instantly to be able to detect
spurious ones the co~unterfeiter's occu-
patton would be gone. Whenever a
counterfeit with the exception of a
Photographic, photographic, acid etch-
ing, or pen-made one, any of which
frauds should be detected at a glance)
Of aNational Bank bill appears, the gen
uine bill is as rapidly as possible with
drawn from circulation. The fact that
a counterfeit has been Showed is pub
iished as soon as it is discovered and it
is the duty of everybody to thereafter
refuse Or be very careful in accepting
bills of that denomination. We are
even now expecting that in ashort time
a new spurious bill will be showed
We have not yet traced it to its.origin,
but we have II eyes open and are on
the lookout. "-Phi1adelohiia Times.