The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-07-06
COUNTERFEIT MONEY.
The Vast Amount of Queer Goods In en-
Government Treasury.

The Vast Amount OF Queer Goods In the
Government Treasury.
''There Is money enough there to
make you and me rich for the rest oi
our lives" said Secret Service official
10 the correspondent The eonversa-
tion took place In one Of the rooms of
the Secret-Serviee Division In the
Treasury Department. and "there''
was a vault from which messengers
were carrying little canvas bags and
packages done up In manila paper and
sealed with red wax. But / am
afraid. the official continued. THAT 10
wouldn't do ms much good. There are
couple of million dollars there, but.
every cen. Of il In bogus
The ''queer" was being taken out Of
the Secret-Service vaults 10 be exam
ined by committee which has been ap-
pointed by the Secretary Of the Treas
ury for that purpose previous 10 being
destroyed. 1t is eleven years ago since
the last counterfeit money in the Treas
ury was destroyed. and these -. 900. 900
represent the work of the counterfeit
ing fraternity since that time. When
ever q shower OF the queer Is captured
with any bogus stuff on him the money
Is sent To Washington, where IL lies in
a vault until enough has been aecumu-
lated. when il Is destroyed. Each cap
ture is kept separate from the others.
and the bogus coin Is treated lust the
same as II it were United States money.
just issued from the mint The care
which Is exercised is shown in the
manner in which the packages are
marked. Here is sample:
mo. i04 b. One thousand and forty
eight.
"A. One hundred and twenty dollars
(ff2Ol. twenty-five cent COIN
The number and letter A refers To n
record and complete inventory which
is kept of every east
1--WE have in that collection" said
the Secret Service man. "gold and silver
and every thing in the shape of paper
from one-cent revenue stamp up TO
thousand-dollar government. which is
the largest bond that has ever been
eounterfeited. There are 208 OF the
thousand-dollar bonds which were made
by the great firm of Brockway. Smith
" Doyle. probably the three greatest
men ia their business we have ever
known. Some of the work on the bonds
is finer than the genuine, but that is ae-
counted for when you remember that
Smith was the engrager who did the
work for the Government. and when
he went into business for himself he
improved on his frs. effort.
''Stories connected with this money!
should say. Here is some stuff (and
he picked up bag OF haif-dollars1
| which Was taken from gang of eigh-
teen that operated in West Virginia in
| 1882 and 1888. Their leader was a
member of the State Legislature. aud
when we bagged him at last he boasted
If having spoken on the floor of the
| House with counterfeit money in his
| pockets No. ] can't tell you his name.
because since his release from prison.
where we sent him, he has been living
a respectable life and is now in business
/ in West Virginia and is doing WE'LL
There's some stuff we captured at
| O.wego, ~ Y. in 1880 The brains OF
that gang was Mrs. Ingersoll. anil
| pretty bad woman she was. too. Tive
| of her daughters were with her. and. as
they were very pretty girls. ihe old
womaa found them very useful in fas-
cinating young men OF certain class.
so that at last they were willing to do
any thing the girls wanted This pack
| age recalls tragedy. Ii was made By
IA big gang in Indiana some years ago.
and when our men went to arrest them
one of he fellows shot an officer through
the hand. and he promptly returned
| 1.
heart. ="
'Ts there mnch counterfeiting going
on at the present time?"
''No, very little. The only man of
anv prominence in the business we
know of now out of Jail is Pete Me
Cartney. and he is now being tried in
New Orleans for raising one dollar silver
certificates You see, il takes a good
| deal of money to counterfeit notes
There must be good engraver. man
who knows his business thoroughly,
and a first-class printer. 1t takes from
six months to year to engrave the
plates. and during that time the men
have to live. McCartney's principal
work was issuing bogus $50 greenbacks.
and in his time he must have made
thousands and thousands of dollars out
of them. About three months ago he
was released from prison. but he had
no money, and to tide him over until
he could get funds he tried TO turn one
dollar silver certificates into fifties and
was caught
Besides the 81. 900. 900 of bogus
money. there are millions of dollars in
what are known as flash notes.
These limitations are greenbacks used
for advertising purposes, and although
they were not got up for fraudulent
purposes, it is a violation of the law TO
make any sort of imitation of United
States currency or Government obliga-
ton. These flash notes are often passed
off on the Negroes of the South as good
money BY confidence men. The Secret
Service people at rough guess believe
they have $50, 100000 worth of flash
notes in their possession. All this bogus
money will be counted by the Treasury
Committee The notes will be sent 70
the macerator and ground into pulp
and come to life again in the shape oi
sickly-Iooking pug dogs or busts oi
Garfield aud Cleveland. while the coin
will be melted down at the Navy Yard
and perhaps become eventually part oi
the new navy Washington Cor. Gin.
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