New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-24
A NOTED FORGER CAUGHT.
HE CHEATED WESTERN BANKS.
THE sKILFUL METHODS USED BY STEPHEN
BROADwELL IN SECURING 10000.

BRoADwELL IN SECURING $4,000.
stephen c. Broadwcll. known 10 tho police as an
expert orger and counterfeiter has been under
rest In his home at No. 364 West Twenty third Il
since Monday, too III TO be moved from his bed. lie
Is wanted In the cities OF Cincinnati and Detroit
Tor clever forgeiics' by which he swinded banks in
those cities about year ego Circulars describing
INN ana Offering rewards amounting TO 1900 had
been sent all over the country. and the police IN
large city had been appealed 10 By the police Of
Cincinnati Detective ocrreants Reilly and Won
Gerich'ea asccrta.ncd In some way that Broadwcll
was In the Twenty-thlrst. house. where his daug-
ter has furnished TO let and Reilly managed to
get TO the bedside Of the sick man on Monday by
pretending 10 be sanitary Inspector. lie placed
Bioadwe under arrest and Inspector Mclaughlin de-
tailed other detectives to watch the prisoner by turns
Broadwe was said to De suffering from heart and
kidney troubles and asthma with high fever
In February Of last year Broadwell procured three
drafts for SIS al and $40. respectively. at bank
In Chattanooga. The drafts drawn on three
banks In Cincinnati. Broadwe had given his name
al the bank as Thomas HINT and lie had the drafts
| made payable TO his order in that name. lie skill
fully raised the drafts to $500. 81 700 and ~ 600
using chemicals 10 remove part of the writing on the
| face OF each draft ana forging the wrong amounts
here figures indicating the amount Of the draft had
been punched IN the paper the forgcr filled in the
| holes with prepared pnlp. lie then used u punch
| OF his own 10 cut new figures In the paper. The
work was done perfectly that the changes could
| not be detected under magnifyDg glass. TO avoid
the necessity of being Identified at the banks in Gin
clnnati, lie forged the OF the cashier of the
Chattanooga bank under the of Thomas Hunt
on the back Of each draft.
The raised draft for 81 800 cashed the Third
National Bank OF Cincinnati and the other two forged
draft. were cashcd nj the First National Bank and
the German National Bank OF the same city In the
following May BrOadwell. then having assumed
another name passed forged drafts for 81. SEQ and
$1,000 on the Third National Bank and the CITY
savings Bank OF Detroit. using drafts for e1s and
$50, which he had obtnncd at bank in lansing Ia
other cities. the police say be Is believed {, have oh
tllncd about $1,000 more by the method.
The police ~ This city were Instructed 10 search
Tor the iorecr, and Detective sergeant Reilly rcc0g
nizcd Bcadwcll In the descriptions contained In III,
circulars. lie had arrested BroadNrl on November l.
1881. Tor cOunerfritine # the spanish Han,
OF Havana. Dangerous conntcrfets Of the bank
$50 notes had been found to be in circulation and
the bank had Withdrawn all Of Its notes II thai
denomination. Then there a report that tho
conntert"iterS were preparing c0untcrfcts Of the
banks So notes Cuban merchants In In" cts
were warned TO look out for the appearance Of thoS,
notes. BrOadwcll Offered TO sell some counterfeit
! notes one merchant, who led him into a trap and
caused his arrest by Reilly. At the time Of hi,
bIoadwel had s2j. 900 In the counterfeit n7te
in his possession and had committed himself {
the merchant. lie was convicted and sent to pilsoI
for term Of I'VE years.
| After the arrest Of Broadwcll In The house IN
Twenty third st. Monday Inspector Mclaughlin
telcrrphed 10 the police Of Cincinnati. requcs;in!
that some person be sent 10 identify the prisoner
Detective Crawford Of the Cincinnati force arrived f.
this city Wednesday with the three paving teller
II Cincinnati who had Cashcd the forged draft. TIE
tcllcrs Louis f. Van AuSol Of the Third National
George Koehler. OF the First National and Gustav
l.. steclcr Of the German National Bank They wrr
taken IA the room Of Broadwcll Yesterday morning
and each VI them positively identified the prisoner
Inspector Mclaughlin said that Eroldwcll had pnc
,ically admitted his guilt II lie RECEIVERS sunccntly
TO travel he vii! be- taken 10 Cincinnati for trlnl
but the police think he may not recover He he
been I'll for several months. and lis death may pre-
| vent his trial for forgery.
At The Jefferson Market Police Court Yesterday
| a warrant was granted authorizing the removal o
Eroadwcu 20 the prison ward OF Bellevue llosplta
o. soon The police surgeons think that lie can be
| moved without endansering his i!e. Btoadwrll
| Is siyty.tw0 years Old.