The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-28
FORGED cHrsxsE CERTIFICATES.
whoiesaIs Registry Frsnds Contsm-
plated by q Gang fn Portland.

Wholesale Registry Ersnds Gontsm-
plated by Gang In Portland
PORTLAND. July 27.--A scheme to evade
the Chinese registrasionIaw was unearthed
here today by Federal officers. They ar
rested James Reid, whe, when taken into
custody, confessed to being one, of the
principals, and made q clean breast Of the
whole affair. Reid and OF. Miller and a
man who went by the name of Minto and
James. and claimed to have come
from Baltimore recently, conceived
the idea of manufacturing bogus
internal revenue registry certificates
for Cinnamon, and disposfng OF
them TO the boss Cinnamon. To put the
scheme into effect they secured bona fide
certificate and had q plats die cast for
eounterfeiting the head OF tue certificates.
They then set up in type. In size and up
psaranes almost idental with that In the
original certificates. the rem aining printed
matter, had seals made like those
used by the collector of internal revenue.
and putting the form together had it
stereotyped. From this stereotyped plate
the bogus certificates were run of. with
seal and everything else except the sigma
furs of the collector and the filling In of
the blank spaces. These certificates re-
sembsd the genuine very closely, and II is
only on comparison that the difference can
be detected. The presswork in running
eff the forms was done in q well-known
printing Office at night by one of0the en-
ployes They we're then signed, Reid
says, by T. Miller, the forgery of Collector
Blackman's name being very cieverly
executed.
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Miller, who is Law student He has
been witness in Chinese habeas corpus
cases very frequently Of late. and has been
closely watched by the officers on this
account G. b. Fety, a stampmaker. doing
business on SixthO street, between Stark
and Oak, and who made the seals used.
wss also arrested andFeleassd undeFbonds
of $500. Helelsims to have been snor-
ant Of the useto which the seals were 10
be pat, and the officers are inclined to
believe him innocent. A. Burr, wh0 en-
graved the die from which the heading Of
the certificates was cast WAS also arrested
and released under s. sc bonds Reid,
after his confession, vas released undss
s.. 800 bonds. Miller vase placed under
bonds in IKE amount, which he was
unable TO furnish. Mimic, or James, the
man from Baltimore. is in San Francisco
having gone there on the steamer sunday
evening. taking the plate Cor printing the
certificates with him. Reid says IL was
the intention 10 do business on a wholesale
scale in San Francisco. ana had the ar
rests not been made today the principals
in the work would havaC gone to San
Francisco on toaight's siesGner.
A number OF tho bogus certificates were
found IN the store Of a ChlnAman n amed
old Joe, on YsmhitI streeg. sonis Of the N
parity filled out and Others entirely in
blank. except that all bore tie forged sig.
nature OF Collector Blaekman. Here they
also found stencils used to0stamp In words
la certsln Of the blank plsSes OF the eertl.
Gates. such as we're used IN the ofiice Of The
collector OF internal revenue. One Of these
contained the word "laborer, . anasher
Portland, Oregon. and ~ thord issued
under amendatofy act 50 November q,
isa1" They also found a aumberosf esrti.
hcates for the retGrn % Chinesa -rner-
chants. such as we're used By Bguu and
his gang OF smuggieFs. old ice. while ths
officers were searching his stores slipped
out sad y hen wanted could act BE found.