The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-11
FACING PRISON At LAST.
Americas Most Expert COun-
terieiterS Formally Ac-
CuSed in Court.
REMANDED Fur EXAMINATION.
In Another Month Hill and ROyt
Would Have PlOated MILLIONS
Of Bogus Money.
WHERE DID THEY GET FIBRE PAPER I?
Dies for Spurious Coins That Evidently Be-
longed to Hoyt-The Failure Of Twenty
Ave Years Of Criminal Plotting.

the Federal Building, yesterday after
noon. They we're Charles w. Hill and
Russell b. Hoyt, the alleged leaders Of
the most able and most daring gang of
counterfeiters with which the Secret Ser
vice has ever been called upon to deal
OF the two Hill was the most interesting
to look at. He sat at the bar, clad In
old clothes. with an expression of melan-
choly on hIs large, striking features. His
face reminded one strongly of David
Dudley Field. When he stood up to an
swer to the indictment one was struck
vita the tremendous strength shown in
the breadth of his shoulders, the depth
Of his chest, his long arms and his power
full, slightly bowed legs. The look of
melancholy, evidently habitual and not
caused by his present desperate condi-
ton, ras accentuated by the droop of
his shoulders He Is an old man, so old
that he will. II. all probability, die in
prison serving the sentence that is sure
TO come. He has been a counterfeiter for
twenty-five years. He has got nothing
out Of 1t but poN erty and shame, a life
spent in hiding from the detectives.
He has kept out of prison, but the
Secret Service SO tireless, SO persis tent,
50 certain 10 succeed In the end. has
never given him peace. He has seen his
wife. but three times in eighteen years.
His boy, now a young man of nineteen.
would not know him, If he saw him.
the boy, then a baby, were going West.
As the train stopped at little station in
OHIO he said to his wife:
THE detectives are close after me-"
ALWAYS IN HIDING.
He bent over and kissed the baby and
a IL.
fci nine yea RS He suddenly appeared in
Brooklyn when she thought him dead
He was ragged and half sick and starry
i m They never let me alone" said he.
II want food and money" Sle gave him
food and money and he disappeared 1t
was five years before she saw him again
and then i was the same old story. He
was still dying, still hiding, still working
at the plates that were to bring him ii.
licit fortune He. vanished again. and
now she sees him in prison.
Hill did not know 1t, but during those
known where he was. He had hidden
himself completely; There was no
shadow shade on his track, but still he fed,
ling, lodging. fancied detectives, toll
| ing. away at his plates. All those
years, at the honest trade of engraver.
1T which none is more skilfuI than he,
he might have been making $1,000, 5000.
even 5000 year, living honestly under
his own name. which. perhaps. even he
has forgotten. so numerous have been
his aliases. Yesterday he stood there at
| the bar. trapped at last, caught l.
handed, facing certain imprisonment,
and the chance of never seeing the light
of freedom again.
| THE YOUNGER PRISONER.
The other man was Younger. He will
look like ex-Presldent Harrison ten
years from now. Even now the resem-
blance is striking. He was well dressed
| prosperous looking, had the air of a
| been crooked all his life long, the de-
tectives say. He was n skilful workman
the best in the country, at his trade,
always crooked. He wanted his EN- EN-.
ployers to pay these men In counter
feits he said he could buy, proposing
it seriously, as if It were legitimate. He
| stole from them, he tricked and sneaked
and finally took to this business of coun
tcrfeitins He. too. will get fifteen long
years Of prison NE, that viii let hin
The best thing these men could have
done was to let themselves be sent L
| Connecticut, urge on their case there
get into prison as soon as possible anC
begin the serving of their sentences. Bu
their lawyers, Hoyer & Stern, demanded
an ans sSam, mat SO a., the Goyernmen
witnesses from Connecticut. The case
therefore,. went over until next Tuesda,
Chief Hazen. of the Secret Srevice, wa,
Forsythe. When the matter was con
cluded they stepped out and slipped up
stairs to those mysterious rooms of the
Secret Service, those quiet rooms through
whose doors few persons ever seem L
come or go. For II is, indeed. secre
service. mysterious in Its ways of work
Ing, masking Its agents, keeping every
thing to itself. These two men have littl'
to say to the public they have served 81
admirably.
CAUGHT JUST IN TINE.
Never was a case SO complete, ant
never before in the history OF this Gov
eminent has such a gigantic attempt I,
i al happened just in the nick of time
feits ever made would have been cir
sythe is the complete outfit of the coun
terfeiters-the presses, the rollers. thu
plates. the ink, the paper, the $lS 900 II
ones attention called to the defects be
fore one sees them.
There are ten %, Of these plates;.thre,
three for the Garfield $2O gold note
J which was not yet completed, and fou
for the $40 note OF the Mystic River Ma
for use. Each plate was marveliou
piece OF engraving. those of the Mysti
River National being especially fine
woeS ssr Rs t %
must work only when he is in the moo,
II he wishes to work successfully. Ii /
delicate work. and there must be n
mistakes.
Looking az the plates. we can fame,
the old man Hin or Murphy, or Davis
as you choose tc call him. bending owe
them night after night. month In an
month out, and not knowing at wha
moment the detectives would break n
and seize MIN and pu, all his work /
naught but evil for him. They Wer
going to sell the Webster notes at Ss5
the first $1,000. and $500 for every 81 .O0
thereafter. But the Mystic River note
were TO be passed at par. Those plate
were the triumph II old Hills life, In
crown OF his labor as a GOPHER Of Unite
states money. They were to be ab
solutely perfect. The plates are neari
done. and, so far. they were perfect
The Government could do no better.
WHERE DID THEY GET FIBRl
PAPER?
But the interesting and mysteriou
. part OF this exhibit OF counterfeiting
the paper As Is well known, the Unite
states Government has secret process
for the manufActure OF lis paper 10
Il money. 49, 80.