The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-13

years In the penitsntiary at Columbus, Ohio.
At tho end OF eight years he was pardoned.
and the story goes that wonderful BRACELET
woman who ii vi Influence with the Governor.
secured for him his release: subsequently no
,e back into crme pna WAS cansht Out SIN IN
turning states evidence. ,
The promoter OF tho counterieiting gang Is
nStion must t's BE- given s fhe manlsr IL which
Who prSiuces the ne
known to the person, who circulate them.
The latter. who nre called Showers have no
usually. They receive word that at q certain
place business, is to DO doue in their line No
tho subject. beyond the giving OF direc-
ton, The shower goes to the place indi-
T'sl eH,m %sy house be anu mo o pss
stuff" Is handed out to him through a
small opening ~ door; % return he hangs ~,
sees nobody. and. ii he H. caught passing tho
counterfeits, hc In VS. nothing. II h. steer
disbnrsng agency has vanished. Even the
disbursing agents presumably not acIuainted
with the engraver and with the promoter, he
denies tho charge; and there, is no evidence
against lin. Tor It |, certain that hs vii have
nothing OF n compromising nature In his nos
session. Tho only rson VINO has knowleuge
for his work and Intends to the circulation.
Even aided by the testimony OF the enGrnver.
it Is difficult for the law to eonvlst sns pro.
about him in the form OF rlates or counter ter,
ie.s lie is nsary always man 81 os s1s
Industry OF countsrfeiting, initiating the
schemes, employing the skilsd workmen. ana
the eaGi!r ,oo 5eso who meet
Ono OF the most beautiful proofs in the scrap
book Is OF y $50 compound int est not. issue
and Is remarkable for tho exquisite execution
OF tho iathe WORK on It's oack. Tho maker wss
diced sn fy "n NO ihe is
1854. which was seat tered all over tho United
shows fSs o rfb aek h ssS
separate. Then comes the changing Of Tho
chimes" us the business Is called. the name OF
s ne Sn as often as and
the seal the corresponninS State being PIT ut
readig trans i S into MANY others By the
simpiS device OF using skeleton" plates. A
me nai9n9 nos u nspe
f fnto. Ill., T in SIS when Boya was taken 10
hans the most OK trsordnnry thing connected
with mis- career, however. was the conspiracy
G q 10 Seal nn hs xSa
to hold It tor ransom. The body. was 10 be re-
the 70 bbers, the payment of 5000: 700 in money
and tho pardon OF Ben Boyd. A woman re-.
soon a .o an n attempt was mado By other out
laws 10 accomplish the same purpose. J.,
9 Gs. rssed
from small denominations to big ones BY past
ing large nnmbefs oysr lttic ones For OK.
formed into fifty bynn alteration Of the figures
aitor this manner The person who ala these
lie hal wias knowledge and some learning:
md was known. popularity as "One.eyed
honSn and it was SsyiaE $; ,tn his s,t that
81 undrel he could be. A better illustrator
OF his own proposition than he could hardly
method OF chorping up $40 bills and pasting
the pieces togethe SO as TO make eleven OF
them. The first explosive box known to- have
been sent by one person to another was de-
spatched by him to a fellow citizen in New
York whom he disliked.
into good sized ones the celebrated John Peter
Mccartney began his criminal career. he was
youth OF Is. whom il occurred to him 10 multi
ply his dollars by scrnping out ones" and past
ing lives" and tens" over them, cut from the
oils grocer to whom he handed his first altered
looking DE1 at nI' and saying don't Know about
that" however me trH h,, only meant
cash drawer. Mccartney. who had already
slsdsd engraving s9meW What took instrpstion
to MAKE dates on his own account, From
that tine. waieh was before the war: he was
t % the Ss'Iio @ e On keniss street.
whsass Hs Ss
ne wns INDUSTRY nycrsab. his For many
cuia G Git il. lie had small directory full Of
IN the most t. extraordinary variety 81 FILES.
From season TO season he prncttced medicine.
served as commercial traveller. was an artist.
Of tho Secret Service. a Treasury expert and
Would ,HI Sometimes lake refuge In washington.
the place oil all places where the agents OF the
hm +.
Detect Them" giving bogus money Of his own
Thaurh srrestei repeatody be be- procured his
freedom by bribins his captors or jailors with
his profession no became possessed Of q very
considerable fortune. but the attractions Of a
o stspnR re
OF successful industry in this line duTiac
which he must have put more than sl.0OO.00J
iitein years imprisonmenf at hard abor.,
genuine 81 bills in Chemicals to rid than d
ink. thus obtaining the G!vsrnment's own
SrDe i've Tn Ts oa not sast
terestins OF. the curiosties in the scrnphook
nre proofs of plates with which he applied the
plates were simply Hat surfaces OF steel. with
scra,ches In tho form OF curlycues on them.
sheets OF tho Iatter cams ont with al the ap.
pearanso Of ilbrous mi, mann lt, Then they
McCartneys long-preservsd immunity from
justice was due chiefly TO the liberality with
which lie !isbnr,ed money iu payment for
NV "a no a NJ II In al n