The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-04

CARNEY was helping him. There were two
otner women connected with the gang,
ana among its members were Fred Bic
puscn, a German capitalist of St. Louis, |
ana an Cd mans named Levi and his son.
Inese two latter were determined coun-
ter.eiters and the whole Levi family en- |
gagged in counterfeiting When the old |
man died one of the girls presided over the
establishment She was robust and hand |
some, and daring manipulation of bogus |
money. She was very ladyIiie, am told, !
and her bright blue eyes gave no evidence
OF the secrets which she carried. With
this gang Pete Mccartney and his wife
stayed for some time, and in 1870 he was
arrested with great lot Of bogus money
on his person. He escaped again and
shortly after this, he was again arrested
and taken into the same Springfield jail
from which he had escaped. While he was
here one OF the chief detectives of the Sc
cret service called upon him and had an
Interview with him. During the interview
Mccartney says, "You don't intend to
leave me here, do yous" Eyes, do" said
the detective
WELL replied Mccartney, 'I can get
out OF here easy enough. l have done it
before and l can do it again.
AT this the detective laughed, but Nc
CARNEY inquired his hotel and room and
said he would return the call that even
tive, it is said, heard. quiet. rap at the
door. Come inn he called, and McCartney
entered The detective sprang to his feet
and covered his visitor with his revolver,
but Mccartney quietly said: II merry
called to pay my respects and | am going
back. You do not need to shoot me-" The
greatest caution had TO be exercised in the
care of Mccartney at this time and be was
usually searched after his wife had pad
him visit AT one time after she left
a small bar OF lead was found 1pon him
and he would probably have escaped
had this not been discovered. One
of his former escapes he had
made by means of the tin foil which was
wrapped around chewing tobacco. He
had pressed it into shape and in some way
had managed to get out by means of it.
At another time Re disguised himself as
an old man and a third time he escaped
while in the keeping of two United States
marshals. A reward of a half million doll
airs was once offered for him. but he was not
found and when he was arrested six
months later this reward had been with
drawn and only $1,000 was standing.
Mccartney paid his captors 81, GO to get
off and thus obtained his freedom. He
was captured in Indiana some years ago
and put III the penitentiary and it was
here that he had to serve out his sentence.
His term was fifteen years but he got
something off for good behavior During
his Imprisonment he offered his marshal
81, 700 for steel saw but the official was
honest and would not give it to him. MIC
Cartney at one time lectured on counter
feiting and he acted the part of the re
formed counterfeiter. He announced that
he had abandoned his trade and was going
to be good boy for the rest of his life. He
passed out counterfeit bills to the people
who bought his tickets, however, and he
supplied other counterfeiters with plates
which he engraved on the sly. He was a
man of wonderful parts and during his life
acted as an artist, a miner, livery stable
keeper, practised medicine and acted as a
commercial traveller.
A FAMILY OF CoUNTERFEITERs.
He came of family of counterfeiters
and his brother in-law, Miles Ogle, was u
noted counterfeiter. His grandfather
father and brother had all been engaged in
counterfeiting and his first experiments
were as boy in changing one dollar bills
into tens. He was connected with another.
noted counterfeiter named Ben Boyd and
he had number of women acquaintances
who were counterfeiters. Among these
were the Alderman girls, Martha Ann and
Almir&nda Mrs. Alderman was the
widow of a German counterfeiter and her
daughters were both bright and skillful
and Martha Ann had been engaged in
printing counterfeit bills in her father's
house when she was only eleven
years of age. Mccartney fell in
love with Martha Ann and married her,
and it was this same girl who so often aided
him in the escapes above mentioned. His
mother-in-law married again, and her new
! husband was counterfeiter. The result
was that all of his family connections were
professionals. Almiranda Alderman, who
had also been engaged in the business, mar
ried Ben Boyd, and she was connected
with him and his interesting career. 1t was
from Ben Boyd that Mccartney learned
how to engrave, and he was apprenticed to
him as boy. Ben Boyd was associated
with him in most of his schemes, and the
two sisters who helped their father and
mother in their counterfeiting schemes
worked together in aiding their husbands
POINTS ABOUT CONTEMPLATING.
The making of counterfeit money re-
! Quires number of processes. and til c
women connected with the families have
much to do with counterfeitlng the ''queer'
for the market. The money is not as a
rule passed out just as it comes from the
press. 1t is desirable TO make the bills
look old and to give them the appearance
of having been handled. They are some
times dipped in weak coffee to give them g
brownish tint. Oil mixed with dirt is used
to produce the effect of finger marks, and
the bills are rubbed this way aud that until
they are soft and lose their rustline
nature. 1t is great deal easier to pass an
old counterfeit bill than new one, aud the
work of making the bills is no light
matter. One of the secret service
officials tell me that it takes
eight months to get up counterfeit mote
that will have any chance of passing The
engraving must be done by an expert and q
good counterfeit plate will sell te the
showers of the queer for hundreds of dol
lars. l looked over the scrap-booSs oil
noted counterfelters to-day and | was
! shown some bills, the authors of which
have never been discovered. One OF the
best counterfeits in existence is $40 green
back, and it is not known whether it was
made by man or a woman. 1t is mo-
engraved, but it is drawn entirely with
pen. Every line and dot, with all the
! shades of green, black and red of the regu-
lar twenty dollar bill are seen upon it, and
the treasury department has been search
ing for years for its maker 1t often goes
through many hands before il is detected
and whether it is made by male or female
it is certainly work of fine art. Another
family of counterfeiters is the johnson
family, two brothers of which are serving
their terms in the penitentiary. The
women were suspected,but escaped through
technicality. They wered engaged with
their brothers in getting up a FIVE dollar
certificate plate. This was fine specimen
of engraving, and its bills were first discov
ered-in circulation in Detroit.
SHOWERS OF BOGUS SILVER
The rogues' gallery has number of face
J of women who have been arrested for shov
ing bogus silver dollars. One of the mos
striking of these is Anne 12Slly, whose fac