The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-04
uoRK OF coUNTERFEIrERs.
,,,-,- 70 the Rogues' Gallery OF the
q secret Service.
Froua the Washington star

rom
..Hsre are the bills, these are the plates ,
,.rars ara the chaps" said the man who
anu - - tyvanty-nine years in the United
ms rls treasury department telling visitors
s. ga. countsrfeiting and the people who
aO9i, If Above the door Of room No.
e.Ea Tvbicb he stays, are the words Sc
o. S.-yioer It is small room, lighted
cre1 30 ceiling. On its walls hang the
IRON It - Of 80 of the ''chaps" before
puo.!5,aI In an adjoining room, bearing
lIeN 16ibi.iOr Private on the door,
l M - ora 1000 or 5000 additional com
llv'g in guilt" forming a yerltable
pn.y,es, GALLERY Only those that are
I'D ruiltv Of violation OF law are now
!I1yS[o+o1eaDhed. Some Of these faces are
bright and Intelligent: some are snIlen ana
lltS--ii,o. some are villainous and wicked;
SCI" rs ,,7solant and defiant: some sad and
S 5ainota5 One wears broad grin, with an
ICY '1g I,.a-,r down in a smirking grimace.
ey 9Go~o,s a fellow that didn't want TO leave
,-H-+5i,cJ r. remember him by" said the
t 70 o.. 10 a reporter, showing faded
ot,,ra hsoriued with much handling. The
P,6je,t,s mouth was gaping and all his
Soafures distorted into an unrecognizable
'ar4jtion He had been clutchad about the
tSroat and by the hair by main force.
MANY faces of women appear IN this coIlec-
80 &C we'll as those of negroes and for
s oiol, The faces Of the assassins of Lin
coin and Garfield are also shown.
THE ENGRAvERs.
vvba, the government seizes q gang of
,ornrerfeters everything belonging to
their craft is captured. The steel plates for
printing the bills, bonds and revenue
starnDs the molds for molding coin, the
stamping machin IS for making stamped
p irs the pap er upon which bills are
nrinted, the metals, the weapons for de-
tense and all the counterfeit on hand.
II requires four plates to engraye bill
in the bureau of printing and engraving.
An enqraver is required for each of the
two borders and faces, hence four engravers
make one bill and none of the four knows
the entire design. Some Of the counter
felters now serving sentence are the finest
eugravels in the country and some have
been in government employ. After the
counterfeit bills are printed from the en-
graved plates they are stained with coffee
to give them ar old appearance that they
nav the easier escape detection. A crisp,
new counterfeit is never put into circula-
ton.
&c lfee was down, you see, when that
bill was printed aid our informant, point
ing ont a $40 bill tn at had been too deeply
stained.
DETECTING COUNTERFEITS.
It is often only by the closest examina-
tiou that counterfeit can be detected.
One bill had absolutely no defect excepting
that on one foot of the Goddess of Liberty
that adorned the face there were six toes,
and this fault could only be detected by the
use Of magnifyilg glass. Another bill
mad the minute fault, only discoverabe by
the trained expert, of having one button on
the coat of soldier slightly imperfect.
FINE PEN WORK.
Some counterfeiters photograph bills and
retouch them with pen and ink. These are
easily detected and can only be pas ed off
on the unobserving and careless.
Here Is perfect piece OF work-one of
the best we have ever taken in" said the
exhibitor, and a very old and much mended
$50 ill was shown
That work is done with a pen he con-
tlnued Every bill is made separate. That
(. man has been at work ON these bills for
nlne or ten years. We've been hunting
Tor him for the last seven or eight YEA 5,
4 We haven't found him yet, but we'll get
H him, that's sure
A CARICATURE.
Attention was called to another piece of
pen work that is only shown as a curiosity
as no one was ever deceived into thinking
was genuine money except the poor, dis
uaught creature who makes the bills.
us a SlOO note. On its face is the pic
.ure OF a very daft-looKing lady intended to
4 represent Martha Washington. She hos
long corkscrew curls and red ewes tbet
START up INTO her temples. On the reverse
lace was picture of the Capitol with q
trsln OF cars on the Baltimore and Ohio
leaulng Tor the dome An inmate of AN
insane asylum occupies himself making
,le.e DIS and paying his physician for his
services with them.
RAISING BILLS.
4 great deal Of counterfeiting is done bv
IaSing'" Genuine bills are used for this
pupese. by erasng the figures in a two
90. ~ ana substituting the denomination
IN Gu GU the work IS rendered very simnle
a'uough readily detected by any close oh,
revenue stamps Of every descrin-
' aon nave been counterfeited, but POSTAGE
amps nave never been initiated
"uule very good counterfeit paper was
rEio LOT me crime of manufacturing
s1 hlS' JIG offender has fifteen years at hard
s toi 'iS = !. notes are freque tly counter
Sg7u IN TINS country. Bank of EngIsnd
OleS are easily countorfeited as tbs -'. n,.d
paper p''''eU On pam white
COIN CONTEMPLATING.
a STU Is constantly couuterfeited. The
|nsda uod ! com that has ever been
,sT5 was silver dollar.
IHay com passed tbrOuph +ba er,..xu
n nh VI tne haest experts in the countrS in
eSSnfy OF the United States 49, ~
an @ sall the guardian. 'sIt lacke ~
1- rin "11 y Oh The proper weight and has n
snj 10 ',,eVai' antmony, unitss with silver
h. en4ir ISL III counterfeiliag silver coins
kyitb +G'.4oiE IS melted aud run into rnoldc
ooI a Cu0 correct faces. When the metal Is
troper s'o9 i 10 work it is filed down to the
bal ev ~ 9 as ahtimony is the only metal
Ind fa5 ~ IS on cooling. When il is cool
thin SIN tI0 proper size it is plated with
Hating sdo,, Pa0ing as any other silver
a 14e goa coin is Struck The motal :
tT-eI. ost"een engraved staaI bl AaIo.0a Is
tut nv !" make the faces. The ada,as o1(.
hold + ' o1l- machine, as the metal is al
miljn,. 'o1S more TO make struck coin as
kouuterfsta- nachlne alone cos SIS. The
for m9cLird spends as little as possihIe
18th. Old oa;y 70 carry on his business
he and ro. Go4hS that are valuable for tba1y.
SO4 silver 4 ~ 5T are also counterfeited. The
as been con u g3aei is now worth ST 200 and
lnd brio 1, ~ ADVERTISING SCHEMES
any hind Is arc &c g96 up to represent money
pvernuent az. ai. Illegal and are seized bv the
ping them . a. altlough the people manufact-
Rnt to defrs ~,i entirely innocent of any in
be occssi.- GOLD BRICKS