The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-06
BIC HAUL OF
BAD MONEY.
T.OusaudS of Counterfeit Bills
Captured b. SeCr.t Ser.
vice Men.
FOUND On THE ROYT FARM.
Spurious Bank Note Factory I'm.
earthed in Bethel,
Connecticut.
OUTFIT EQUALS UNCLE SANS
They Had Three Sets OF Stee
Plates. Stack Of FIBRE Paper
ard Silk Thread.
OUTFIT EQUALS UNCLE SANS

Gen. william =. Hazen, chief of the
United States Secret Service and Agent
Forsythe in charge of the New York
Office, spread out on a large table In u
room In the Federal Building before a
number OF reporters this afternoon, the
most complete OUTFIT of counterfeit bill
plates, bills, silk fibre paper, spool fibre
silk and other counterteiting material
that the Government has ever had In
its possession.
The entire lot was seized last week
in the farmhouse of Lorenzo Hoyt, in
Bethel, Conn, by Secret Service officers.
Russell b. Hoyt, Lorenzo Hoyt, James
W. Murphy and Samuel Massey. the
heads Of the gang. are all under arrest,
and the present disposition made Of them
10 told in another column of "The Even
Ing World" ....
When Massey was arrested sixty-seven
SO counterfeit United States notes, Web
BY James W. Hyatt. CHIEF Treasurer,
and w. B. Rosecraps, Register Vi inc
Treasury. were found on him. They were
also stamped with the United States
number 2250.
rest, sold thirty-four notes of this is
u
marked money AZ! the rate of 80 cents
on the dollar. When arrested, Massey
had this good marked money on HIM.
As Massey entered the NV, York office
sold these thirty-four bogus bills, left
the office by another door.
TO give these bills an appearance OF
The sixty.se s oiIis found W on Massey sS
had not been so colored, except one.
Those he sold to the officer Were
The Secret Service Officers searched
Lorenzo Hoyts farmhouse last week.
One Of the first finds was the plates
from which the bills found on Massey
front, a back. a zeal and number
Then the officers found under the barn
Eyer Elm, h2 Of t .a same sam. ae66omination
Next the full set OF plates for q $40
Of 1852. were found.
A further search uncovered a full set
Of plates for a $40 bill on the Mystic
River National Bank.
Stacks upon stacks OF unoolored, ,un:
ara Sre o@ ss
used BY the Government, was found.
Also ink-tint catalogues. from which to
order any reauislte color for the bills.
.hsd. less perfeot than the Is Govern R"s a
ment articles.
Gen. Hazen said that none of the
bank notes had. so far as he knows
been printed. Thousands Of the $40
Webster bills had been printed hut
none Of these latter had. he believed.
The silk fbre paper Is thought to have
been manufactured in England, but
there Ia no certainty on this point.
When James w Murphy was arrested
last week, Il was thought that the
Mystic River Bank plates would be
found In his possession.
Gen. Hazen said that the Secret Ser
vice had known. Russell B. Hoyt az an
expert counterfeiter for four years
Nothing. had yet been ascertained dell
hitely, about the three others, but their
records were now heine traced.
That Is all have to give out to-day"
said Gen. Hazen.
THE capture OF this OUTFIT and the
four meh Is considered by the Govern
ment o., Hias to be the most important
81 sta.i probably he able to give fur
Their details next Wednesday. Our men
are still working on the case In Con-
necticut