The Springdale news., 1889-03-22

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 fered to him was a great one. one
 nat not one man iu hundred could
 rei'nsa, decided not to accept tho ! proposal, but to inform the United
 States Marshal Perry, whose head quarters are at Denver. The letter
 was shown 10 Marshal Perry and he answered it under the merchant x name who received it. Marshal Per ry wrote 10 the eomterfetters in New York that he did not care to invest heavily at first until he saw what tue goods were, and asked could he buy $500 w-rsa to start on The reply came back to toward on the money by express 10 name and number that was given. The officer sent thirty good ten dollars bills, and in return recieysd s, GOO m tens and fivss. The money was apparently genuine, and so the bank pronounced 1t in Denver. \ week after he reeicved the money he wrote again to New York, say ing that he thought ofinyesting on q large scale, and asked if he could make arrangements to meet the ma ker of the bills in New York City. at .he Grand International Hotel at eertian time. A favorable an swer came dae.5 to hand, and the detective starta for New York Civ. When Perry arrived at the hotel m question he was called upon by m old man, who brought wilh him | valise, which he opened in the room displaying packages of money am mounting to Sl0o0 900. The dctee- tive examined the money carefully said 1t would suit him. and put his hand in his pocket as ito bring out the money to pay for it; but In the place of money he drew a pistol. and placing il at the counterfeiter's head made hIm prisoner, and took the contents of the bag into his po- session. The preliminary exam nation took place this morning.
 Upon being arraigned on the charge of offering and selling what was supposed to be countetfe1t money. the prisoner apparently became indignant and stoutlv denied that he ever had q counterfeit in his life. anb he demanded that the experts employed by the Treasury Depart ment at Washington be sent for
 His demand was compiled with and on arrival of the gentlemea they at once set about making I thorough and critical examination of the supposed connterfelts; then submitted their sworn report, which was IS stollows: That allthese Um- tied States Treasury notes, were printed from genuine plates used by former workmen in the Print Ing Bureau. They luther added that they had long been aware that that some person had possession of a set otplates supposed to have been furnished by one ofthe ehErayers in the Engraving Bureau, and family that the only difference between the notes found aa the prisoner, and the gennine lies Tn there hot being so much silk fibre interw9yen in the paper. The prisoners counsel ask ed the Government experts if they would. swear that the bills exam IT, ed hy them were commercials. To the astoulshnent ofcverv one in the courtroom, they replied that theY  would not, in fact could not, as they were positive the bills were as good as any issued by the Govelment, and added that the fault lay in the earless manner observed in the Treasury Department ill allowing workmen to handle goyermeu plates, printing inks, dies, etc, as they wished The Commissioner had no other alternative than to dIs- charge inc prisonerwho smiled his thanks and tipped out of the court room yalise in hand, that contained says our reporter 5000, GOO of mon ey good enough for him at all events. And eur reportor was not alone in his enyious thoughts as it seemed that some of the spectators would like to have few thousands of the so-called commercials. 10 give our candid opinIon We could see no dif- terance in the bills as the notes were printed from genuine United States plates, obtained from the En T, -., ,...,.S ,,,.t ,,,#ant a N =t. ir.yN1p