The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-05-30
THE4BOGUS BANK BILLS.
Good Bills Often Freely Used In Manu-
fArture OF Had Ones--Ciose and
Dangerous limitations OF
Circulating Notes.
Yes; there are many ways OF making

Yes; there are MANY ways OF making
good money queer says an ex-treasury
expert and editor OF counterfeit do
tector. The truth Is that showers Of
the queer have made great improve
mcnts in their tricks within the past
ten years.
There are photographed bank bills.
Thee counterfeits are very common.
because they are most easily made.
Photog raphcd bills are turned out by
two methods, known In the profession
as the 'oldn and the new" processes.
BY the ''old" method the letters. num-
bers. and even the whole back OF the
note, were copied In black These
were then tinted with pens and brushes
by hand In order 20 reproduce the
exact colors OF the original. This
kind OF queer" can be told by the
black which shows under the tint.
This usually gives the red seal on a
bank note blotted appearance. The
lettering and numbering are more or
less blurred.
The new" method consists in re-
moving first the seal. numbers and
color work on bills. Then. a negative
Is taken from the black which re-
mains. and from this. photographs are
printed on sensitized paper In
order 10 get the color Of this kind of a
note. an engraved plate for all the
tinted parts Ia used. The numbers
are likewise printed in colors from
separate engraved plates. and they
are made 10 run In a perfect series as
in the original.
There Is the process known as
''picclng." This consists In cutting n
counterfeit In eight or ten pieces or
parts One of the pieces Is pasted
into genuine note by cutting out n
part OF the good note OF the same size.
BY pasting. for example. nine good
bills In this way nine other pieces are
obtained. which. with one piece OF the
queer will make out a tenth note.
You would be surprised II you knew
how much patient ingenuity has been
expended by counterfeiters in 'piec-
ing Here Is bill that has been
pieced, and IL Is only by holding IL up
10 the light that the fraud would be
discovered.
Again. there IL the process called
raising" This Is done by scraping a
good note very thin. and then FASTING
In figures or letters OF higher de-
nomination. In this way FIVE dollar
bill Is quickly and neatly made n fifty
Pete Mccartney. who recently died out
west, was one OF the most expert
raisers ever known 20 the secret serv-
ice. He earned his title OF king OF
the koniackers" over twenty years
ago. He began by raising notes when
only eighteen years old. and he was
sixty-three when he was arrested last
year In New Orleans for doing the
very same thing for which he was sem
fenced forty years ago.
Another way OF fixing money IL 10
change the figures OF note by the
use OF acid. A higher number or
figure Is printed In the blank place
from plate. II Is. however very
difficult for the counterfeiter 20 keep
the acid from staining or bleaching the
paper. The trouble Is that IL the acid
spreads, the surrounding letters pre-
sent a damaged appearance. Here Is
note that has been raised" In this
way. Hold IL up 10 the light and you
viii see where IL has been tempered
with
The engraved counterfeits nre
tho most dangerous OF all. The
finest plates have been captured
by the secret service. except two
series Of plates from which were print
cd the originals OF the five-dollar bills
OF the Manufacturers National Bank
Of Amsterdam and the Fort Stanwix
National Bank OF Rome. ~ Y. Some
eight or nine years ago Charles +.
Ulrich engraved a skillful series of
plates from which fifty-dollar bills
were printed. Not less dangerous were
the hundred-dollar bills printed from n
series Of platas engraved by Charles III.
Smith for William r.. Brockway. These
plates We're surrendered by Brockway
Ia 1880 20 the secret service officers
What Is tho finest and best counter
felt note ! ever sawP Well. that Is
hard 10 say. Perhaps the five-hundred-
dollar United States note OF the series
Of 1869 may be accounted the most de-
scptive aid tho most skillfully execut-
ed. II Is nearly equal 10 the genuine
in engraving and workmanship. II Il
only by comparison with the genuine
that experts can positively decide as Ia
the genulneness OF note OF this class.
So dangerous was the counterfeit that
the treasury department decided "a
retire all the notes OF this Issue. The
result Is that few genuine notes arc
now In circulation. and cashiers re.
ceive notes OF this series only after
close scrutiny and examination.
Making Ftsh-Suooks.
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