The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-06-09
COUNTERFEIT MONEY.
the Vast Amount OF Quscr Goods in tho
Government Treasury.

The Vast Amount OF Queer Goods in tho
Governrnent Treasury.
"Thcre Is money enough there to
make you and me rich for tho rest of
our lives" said Secret Service official
to the correspondent The CONVERSE
ton took place in one of the rooms of
the Secrct-Service Division in the
Treasury Department., and "thcre"
was vault from which messengers
were carrying little canvas bags and
packages done up in manila paper and
sealed with rod wax. "But am
afraid" the official continued, that It
wouldn't do us much good. There are
couple of million dollars there. but,
every cent Of it is bogus
The "queer" was being taken out OF
the Secret-Servico vaults to be exam
ined by committee which has beon ap.
pointed by the Secretary of tho Treas.
ury for that purpose previous to being
destroyed. r. is eleven years ago since
the last coun 'nrfeit money in the Treas
ury was destroyed and these S2, OS0, 900
represent TIE work of the counterfeit-
ing fraternity since that time. When-
ever shovtas of the queer is captured
with any bogus stuff on him tho money
is sent to Washington, where it lies in
vault unit; enough has been accumu-
lated, when it is destroyed. Each cap
ture is kept separate from the others,
and the bogus coin is treated just the
same as if it wero United States money,
just issued from the mint. The care
1uI,tpIr 10 t. oh tn %b,
manner in which the packages are
marked. Hcre is n sample:
mo. 104 b. One thousand and forty
eight.
"a. One hundred and twenty dollars
($120), twenty-five cent COIN"
The number and letter A refers to a
record and complete inventory which
is kept of every cast.
"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 a
thousand-dollar government, which is
the largest bond that has ever. been
counterfeted. There are 208 Of the
thousand-dollar bonds which were made
by the great firm of Brockway. Smith
& Doyle, probably the three Greatest
men in their business we havo ever
known. Some of the work on the bonds
is finer than the genuine, but that is ac-
counted for when you remember that
Smith was the engraver who did the
work for the Government, and when
he went into business for himself he
imnrOvnd on hia fivst affo,t
''Stories connected with this money!
/ should say. Here is some stuff (and
he picked up bag of half-dollars)
which was taken from gang of eigh-
teen that operated in West Virginia in
1882 and 1888. Their leader was a
snember of the State Legislature, and
when we bagged him at last he boosted
of 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
respectable life and is now in business
in West Virginia and is doing we'll"
''There's some stuff we captured al
Oswego, N. Y. in $780, The brains oi
that gang was u Mrs. Ingersoll, and q
pretty bad woman she was, too. Two
of her daughters were with her, and. rs
they were very pretty girls, the old
woman found them very useful in fas.
cinating young men of certain class,
so that ut last they were willing to dc
any thing the girls W anted. This pack.
age recalls tragedy. 1t was made by
q big gang in Indiana some years ago,
and when our men went to arrest them
one of the fellows shot an officer through
the hand. and he promptly returned
the fire and shot his man through the
heart"
''ls there much counterfeiting going
on ut the present timer"
''No. very little. The only man Of
any prominence in the busine IS we
know of now out of Jail is Pete Nc.
Cartney, and he is now being tried in
New Orleans for raising one dollar silver
certificates. You see, it takes good
deal of money to counterfeit notes
There must be good engraver, a man
who knows his business thoroughly
and first-class printer. 1t takes from
six months to year to engrave the
plates, and during that time the mon
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 ou,
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 1ifties and
was caught
Besides the 100000 of bogus
money, there are millions of dollars in
what are known as 'hash'' notes.
These limitations are greenbacks used
for advertising purposes. and although
they were not got up for fraudulent
purposes, it is violation of tho law tc
make any sort of imitation of United
States currency or Government obliga.
tion. These flash notes are often passed
off on the Negroes of the South as good
money by confidence men. The Score,
Service people at rough guess believe
they have $50. 100000 worth of fasl
notes in their possession. All this bogu.