Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-05-07
THE BOGUS BANK BILLS.
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HOW SCIENCE AIDS THE COUN-
TERFEITER'S ART.
Good Biiis often Freely Used In Manu-
hrturc of Rsd Oncs-Cloe and
Dangerous limitations oI
Circulating Notes,


Yes; there are many ways of making
good money queer. says I'M cN-treasury
expert and editor Of counterfeit de-
tector The truth is that showers of
the queer have made great improve
ments in their tricks within tho past
ten years,
There are photographed bank bills,
These counterfcits are very common,
lecausc they are most easily made.
Thotog raphed bills are turned out by
two methods, known in the profession
rs the odd and the new processes.
liy the 'oldN method the letters, num-
beers, aud oven the whole back OF the
note wcrG copied In black These
were then tinted with pens and brushes
ty hand in order to reproduce the
exact colors Of the original. This
kind OF queer can be told by the
black which shows under tho tint.
This usually gives the red seal on u
bank note blottcd appearance. The
lettering and numbering are more or
less blurred
The new method consists In no
moving first the seul. numbers and
color work ON bills. Then, u negative
Is taken from the black which re-
mains, and from this, photographs are
printed on n scnsitlZcd paper In
order to get the color Of this kind of u
note, IN engraved plate for all the
tinted parts l. used. The numbers
are likewise printed IN colors from
separate engraved plates and they
are made 10 run In perfect series, rs
in the original,
There Ia tho process known as
'piocng, THIS consists In cutting u
counterfeit In eight on ten pieces or
parts, Ono Of the pieces Is pasted
into u genuine note by cutting out u
part Of the good note of the same SIZE.
BY FASTING, for example nine good
bills In this way nine other pieces ARE
obtained which, with one piece of the
"quccS" will make out II tenth note
You would he surprised II YOU knew
how much patient ingenuity has been
expended by counterfeitcS in "pioc-
ing Hero Il bin that has been
pieced, and il Is only by holding II up
10 the light that the fraud would be
discovered
Again, thcrc Is the process called
raising" This Is doac by scraping u
good noto very thin, aud then FASTING
in figures or letters Of higher do.
nomination In this way five dollar
bill Is quickly and neatly made n fifty.
Pete Mccartney, who recently died out
west, wa' one Of the most expert
raisers ever known Ia tho secret sorv-
Ice. He earned his title Of king 90
the koniackcr5' over twenty years
ago, He began by raising notes when
only eighteen years old, and he was
siXtS-three when he was arrested last
year In New Orleans for doing the
very same thing for which he was son
fenced forty years ago,
Another way Of fixing money Is to
change the fig ire, OF II note by the
use Of acid. A higher number or
figure il printed in the blank place
from n plate. II IL, however, very
difficult for the coultcrlGilur 10 keep
the acid from staining or bleaching the
paper. The trouble Is that II the acid
spreads, the surrounding letters pre-
sent damaged appearance. Here Is
u note that has bccn raised In this
way. Hold it up 10 the light and you
will see whe"c Il has been tempered
with
The engraved countcrfcits nro
the most dangerous Of all. The
finest plates have bccl captured
| by the secret service, except two
soric, OF plates from which were print
cd the originals Of the fiyc-dollar bills
Of the Manufacturers National Bank
OF Amsterdam aud the Fort Stanwix
| National Bank Of Rome, y. Y. Some
eight or nine years ugJ thaRles T.
Uliich engraved skillful series OF
were printed. Not less dangerous were
The hundred-dOllar bills printed from n
series Of plates engraved by Charles H.
Smith for William r. Brockway These
pilates were SURRENDERED by Brockway
in 1880 20 the secret service officers
What Is the finest and best counter
felt note ! ever saw Well, that Is
hard TO say. Perhaps the live-hundred-
dollar United States note of the series
Of 1869 may be accounted the most de-
ccptive and the most skillfully cxecut-
ed. II Is nearly equal 10 the genuine
IN engraving and workmanship. II is
only by comparison with the genuine
that experts can positively decide as to
the commences Of u note OF this class.
So dangerous was the counterfeit that
the treasury department decided 10
retire all the notes Of this issue. The
result Is that few genuine notes are
now In circulation, aud cashiers re-
ceive notes Of this series only after
close scrutiny and examination, y