Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-28
BRAZILIAN HONEY COUNTERFEITED
The Cigar Box Label Dodge.
THE STRINGENT Law IN RELATION TO SUCH
CRIMES,

The secret service force here was notified abou,
the middle Of the month that gang of counter
letters were at work in st. Louis making Brazil
Ian money. The chief Of the force at once tool
steps to arrest them. Chief Brooks had the pho
tograph Of the principal man of the gang, who
gave his name as Lucien A. White. White was
captured, and there was found in his possession
aQuantity Of Brazilian notes engraved in the
most workmanlfke manner and printed upon
Crane d Co. 9 bond paper. As . blind four cigal
box labels were printed In Portuguese on each
sheet, two on the upper and two on the lower
margin. The printing was done SO that when
the money notes were trimmed the cigar box
labels came off in the waste, and LEFT the notes
ready for signature and use. This label dodge
70 s dSns
Orleans, and in both cities large quantities OF
these eounterteit notes have been captured.
vsed there is eotSins to the report
that some Brazilian officials Of high standing
were connected with the counterfeiting con.
officials that the men in the scheme were
strangers In this country and ignorant Of the
law passed last year to prevent the counterfeit
and punish anybody who engaged In it. This
law Is quite rigid The first five sections forbid
$5 600 and imprisonment at hard labor for not
more than I'VE years. The sixth section is very
severe. It provides that any attempt to coun-
ment shall be punished by the fine or imprison
ment or noth already mentioned: that any per.
SOD within the United Ste ties who is caught
WITH any plate, or any part of plate In his pos
session, from which has been printed or may
be printed, any counterfeit note, bond, obliga-
bank or or OF aw
authority, or who permits such plate to be
used, or any person who engraves such a plate
brings into the Gntsi States any pae
from which counterfeits of foreign obligations
may be printed. shall be punished by fine Of
years, or both.
This. law, secret service officials say, has
proved very effective in breaking up gangs en-.
gagged In counterfeiting foreign obligations and
In preventing others from engaging In such lille
gal enterprise: Prior to the passage Of this Law
ooligasions OF foreisn governments could be
manufactured In this country without subject.
ing the parties engaged in it to any punishment
| at all. 1t is known by the secret service thai
the making OF such counterfeits was quite ex
tensive1y engaged in in the United States and
the counterfeits were shipped abroad Tor use
For years the necessity of law to forbid such
of opinion as to the best method of making the
enactment prevented action. Finally the Bra
lillian government made formal complaint tc
| the state department., and the present minister
of that government presented the question
with such force that year or SO ago Congress
passed the stringent law mentioned in this
article.
ANOTHER OF THE IMPLICATED PERSONS AR
RESTED.
A special dispatch from Waco, Texas, says
"Joseph II. White, of Hill county. Texas, wht
was arrested Tuesday morning by Deputy Mar
! shall Wheeler, of st. Louis, on charge Of being
implicated in the scheme TO counterfeit the
currency of Brazil was brought to Waco yes
terday, and was held in default OF $4,000 bal
to appear before Com missioner Finks. JOSEPH
Is a brother OF Lucian A. White, WHO was re
Gently arrested in St Louis ON the same cl,As9e
The former is known to have received q peck
age containing 81 SO, 900 OF the Brazilian conn
terfeits through the post Office at Blum, BosQus
county. The Whites stood we'll in the vicinity
OF Whitney, w here they lived, and were reputet
to be among the~wealthiest residents OF Hill
county,