The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-30
FoRGERs IN THE TOLLS.
CAPTAIN of Gang That Sold Bogus
Chinese Certificates.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 29.-After much
hard work the internal revenue department
has finally succeeded in landing one OF the
biggest gangs of counterfeiters that mas
operated in California since the days OF the
Boyd-Ciprico gang. The combination soid
the certificates issued to Chinese by the
custom houses in China and reaped 1or-
tune. Boyd ran. away to Australia, came
hack and turned States evidence against
Ciprico and afterward shot himself Cipri-
co was acquitted. Kip never came to trial
and Whalley fed the country. Another OF
the gang died before his was called.
There were five conspirators in the Boyd
Ciprico gang and there are five in the one
lust landed Like it's predecessor it also
dealt in fraudulent Chinese certificates.
The names Of the men arrested are: H. l..
Foss, freight clerk on the Oceanic Steam
ship Company's Dock James H. sullivan,
formerly a deputy county clerk; Max Kat
laura. new arrival from Victoria, and said
to be the leading smuggler of Puget sound;
Ferdano Ciprico, the man who was tried
and acquitted for completely in the Boyd
Ciprico ring. and NJ. Greenwald, brother Of
Louis Greenwald,o The man now serving
time in san Quentin for being mixed up in
the operations of the Emerald smuggling
ring. They are all charged with conspiracy
states by means of forged certificates The
counterfeiters were caught in room down
town, which had been rendezvous, and
in which many of their operations TOOK
place The officers had to break in the door,
and when they secured admission they
found one man tearing up documents, WhiIe
another was throwing a package OF certn-
Gates out of the window, where they were
caught by waiting detective below,
marked photographs. The certificates were
also seized, ansi also seals. rubber stamps
and other paraphernalia used in the coun-
terfeiting. All the members of the gang
were landed in the county Jail. The band
Boise City, Helena, Denver. Chicago, Phila,
delphia, New York and Victoria, and had
laid plans to do Business not only with the
Chinese they intended to import, but with
as many as possible of the eighty thousand
registered Chinese supposed to be in the
United States Estimating that they could
have reached 20 per cent. of the unregis-
tered residents or 1900, they beheid the
profits of their enterprise running over into
the millions, and they believed that their
enable them to bride officials, buy juries,
influence politics and otherwise escape the
penalty of their crimes.
Seven Chinese firms in this city were in
partnership with the forgers, and they had
agreed to take 1900 of the certificates with
out much delay. The band is supposed to
have begun its operations in Philadeiphla,
where there is a large paper factory and
printing office. the proprietors OF which are
believed to have undertaken the contract
Portland The imitation certificates have
been used, and were about to be used more
extensively, for two purposes-the landing
of new arrivals from China by way or Mex
leo and British Columbia and for the pro-
lection of Chinese now unlawfully in the
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