Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-08-16
MOST IMPORTANT CAPTURE.
Four Men Are Sure to Serve Time for
Counterfeiting.

Four Men Are Sure to Serve Time for
Counterfeiting.
New YORK, August 9.-When a safe
and closet in the office of the secret serv-
ice division of the Treasury Depart
ment OF the postoffice buildings had
yielded up substantial evidence of crimi-
nality this afternoon and w. P. Hazen,
chief of the division at Washington, and
w. ii. Forsythe, one OF the operators of
the Treasury Department, had talked OF
these treasures, a vastly interesting story
OF expert counterfeiting had been told.
The evidence of the dangerous character
OF the scheme OF felony in the possession
OF the United States officers, and which
formed connecting chain in which not
one link is missing, except a printing
press, consists OF the following articles
one set OF counterfeiting engraved
steel plates, front, back and seal for
striking off United States treasury notes
OF the denomination of $40 of the year
1850, with Webster vignette; letter
check l3, signed, w. S. Rosecrans, Reg
lister, and James W. Hyatt, Treasurer;
a, package containing 1900 notes from
these plates ready for circulation, except
as to staining to simulate pocket wear !;
counterfeiting fibre paper made in Eng
land, or Connecticut, scarcely distin-
gulshable from treasury paper and
claimed as "highly dangerous - enough
OF the same material to serve for strik-
ing Off 81 100000 OF counterfeit notes
special ink used in printing the counter.
leits; book of ink samples and silk
fibre used in making the paper: sixty
six new counterfeit ten dollar bills. and
one ten-dollar counterfeit stained and
ready to be put in circulation; thirty
tour stained counterfeit ten-dollar bills
with identification mark of the treasury
operative upon them and sold to the
operative for 800; one set of counter.
letting engraved plates, front, back. seal
and back number for striking off Mystic
River National Bank notes OF the de.
nomination OF $40, bank number 645.
one set of counterfeiting engraved steel
plates, front back and seal, for striking
of United States 500 gold coin notes
series OF 1882, with Garfield vignette.
letter check A, signed B. II. Bruce
Register, and James Gilfallan, Treas,
urer.
Four persons, who are in custody, are
affected by these evidences of criminal.
lty. They are Russell B. Hoyt nj
Brooklyn, Samuel Massey of Brookivn
James w. Murphy OF Bethel, Conn, en-
graver, regarded as the ringleader in the
counterfeiting scheme, and Lorenzo O
Hoyt, a farmer OF Bethel, Conn, m
whose farm the counterfeitinp imnIa.
ments were found. Chief Hazen said in
an interview; '"'' III
" | regard this case as the most i'm.
portant that has ever been handled hv
any administration OF the secret service
division of the Treasury Department
First look at the evidence in the safe and
closets. Could any set OF counterfeiting
paraphernalia be more completeq az
course, just now the prosecution deals
with the Webster head plate, from which
we have, about Sl3, 200 in notes. and with
which the four prisoners are connected
But see what luck has come to us in Tho
seizure OF the Garfield 500 plates. As
you see, there is no evidence on these Of
single counterfeit having been strnct
from either set, and believe that NO,
one spurious note had come into circnla.
tion from them. The Garfield conntar.
ielt is dangerous one. More so than
any others. Webster notes are marked
IN various ways, notably in the head
vignette." ''e"u