Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-08
THE KING CoINACKER.
hucien A. White, the King Counter.
letter, Arrested in st. Louis.
Passes Through the city,
lie Goes to Waco. where lie {. Expected 10
Testify Against nj. Brothcr. He
Former Acccmpiicc.


brought TO light at ST. Louis. bundle
oil 'cony," representing value a $500.
600, was found by the officers. The soun.
terleit money was seized August l7th.
out despite the utmost work but one
arrest was made.
About the end of last May the Brazilian
minister at Washington was informed
that a gigantic scheme to Introduce com.
terieit money into the empire of Brazil
was on foot In this country. lie was in.
formed that genuine plates used in max
Ing Brazilian bank notes had fallen into
the hands of improper persons. and that
In consequence preparations were being
mace TO emit Hood of spurious cur
rency
The Brazilian minister at once laid tho
matter before the authorities, and
work was begun ON the case immediately
II was some time before the headouartcrs
OF the conspiracy was located i'm st.
Louis, and II took good work to even
accomplish this much. From June to
the middle of August the shrewtlest de.
tectiveS III the country have been follow.
Ing up this work, and nj any rate, n
partial success has crowned their efforts
Luclen A. white, who claims whitney.
Tex, his home, was arrested as the
leader, and much of the bogus money
was seized. When the arrest was made
and the "conyh captured the detectives
were at first greatly disappointed. The
bills were only half printed. The cap.
tured stuff wac in sheets of bills OF the
denomination of 200 milrels and less
amounts, purporting to be issued by the
national treasury, but they were all
fronts without any backs, while care
fully prepared advertisements, also in
Portuguese, made the bills look like harm
less dodgers which were being gotten up
for some enterprising cigar merchant of
Rio Janciro. The bills are nearly all of
the $500 denomination, but the adycr-
tisement seemed 10 take away all the
criminal intent from them They are
printed of excellent bank-note paper, the
bank note part of the bills was an eN-
cellent piece of work. 1t was an exact
reproduction Of the original made by the
American Bank-Note company, fact
only applicable on the theory that the
notes were printed from the original
plates.
White was placed in charge of the oti-
GERS, and the greatest care taken of him.
He was allowed TO see no one, and every
effort was made to secure from him the
names and address of the other parties to
the conspiracy. The whole scheme since
his arrest, became manifest, which was
this: The chief conspirators have not
by any means trusted their subortllnates
fully. They had the fronts printed in st.
Louis and the backs in New Orleans.
When they were ready to begin work the
sheets were to be split in two, task by
no means difficult for expert workers and
the backs and fronts joined together IN Il
bogus bank note, which would absolutely
defy detection. The signatures have not
been added, nor does the current series
of numbers appear upon the bills, There
remain some arrests to be made in ST
Louis and New Orleans, When these are
accomplished the names of the Brazilian
members of the jury will be secured and
the whole case made up. Taken for all
in all, a.more important case has never
engaged the attention of this government
LuCEN A. WHITE,
The prisoner arrived on the Mlssourl-Pa-
ciiic train last night in charge OF ~.
Louis detectives. He was en- route to
Waco to testify In the case against his
brother, j. III, White, WHO'S also charged
with being Il party to the conspiracy.
His preliminary hearing Will he conducted
at Waco to-day.
The prisoner stated that his home Is at
whitney, Texas, but that he had lived In
Brazil for some time About six months
ago he returned TO his home in Texas,
and went to work on his farm. He did
not like the life and happened TO meet q
man named Lane, who accosted him, and
said they had met in Brazil. White stated
that he did not recall the meeting, but
supposed they had met in Brazil.
They talked overl Brazilian mat
tiers for some time and parted
They met frequently afterwards, and be-
came quite intimate. Twas then that
Lane preached the subject of entering
upon some monoy-making scheme White
said he was willing, If u successful one
could be discovered Lane said lac had n
scheme which he thought would pay $40
a day and expenses: lie then spoke of
cigar labels. 1t appeared so well upon
paper that White concluded TO give 1t Il
whirl Lane gave him some money 10 be-
gin with, and with this money he went to
New York for the purpose OF getting
printing, having secured possession of
the plate. He failed TO get the work done
in New YORK, and from there went TO
Chicago, where he again failed. He then
went to st. Louis, arriving there about
three weeks ago. He called ON August,
Cast & Co. of that city, photographers,
and outlined the work which he wanted
done. CAST & CO. agreed 10 do the work,
but their suspicious became aroused
during It's progress, and the firm immc-
diateiy notified the United States author.
itics.
The detectives then went 10 work and
succeeded I'm locating o out 700 sheets of
the counterfeit representing $500, 600.
The prisoner says he Is thirty-four years
old, is slightly above the medium height,
has dark eyes, complexion and moustache,
and looks very much like foreigner. lie
is well educated, and views the case from
an altogether different standpoint from
the officers. He says he did not think lie
was transgressing the law, AS he had seen
'1abels" of the same description In
Brazil. This case is attracting attention