Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-18
THE SECRET SERVICE
Work Performed in Arresting Counter
feitsrs During the Fiscal Year.
4 Great Increase In Initiating Paper
MOney-The Bogus Postage Stamp
Combination Broken Up.

The report of the chief Of the secret SER
vice division of the treasury shows that
officers of that service arrested 500 per.
sons during the past fiscal Year for coun-
terfe.t.ng and kindred offenses. The rep.
resentatve value of altered. and counter.
felt notes. coins and limitations of money
captured during the year was s2,59s.3si
and their actual value was nil.
Counterfeiting Incrcnsed.
Many important arrests were made dur.
ing the year, notwithstanding which there
was a great increase In counterfeting
especially of paper money. A very danger
Gus counterfeit made its appearance in No
vember, 1894. This was q saiUnited States
silver certificate series OF 1871, check letter
B, plate No. IA, w. S. ,Rosecrans. register
e. H. Nebeker, treasurer portrait Of Win
dom. This note practically defies detection
except by an expert. Warning was sent
throughout the United States and precau-
tons taken to suppress this dangerous
note.
The numerous counterfeits produced by
the photolithogrGphic and similar processes
during the past year, the chief says, con-
firms the statement made in his report for
the preceding year, namely, that this art
has made it comparatively easy to initiate
the most Skillfully engraved designs, and
that the danger from this source was grave
limitations of Fiber Paper.
He calls attention to the fact that several
of the most dangerous counterfeits Of late
were printed on paper containing distribut-
ed silk threads, so closely initiating the dis
tinctive paper used by the government as
to render 1t impossible for the public to de-
tect the counterfeit by this means. This
suggests, he says, that in the use Of pc
iii, tirfs nd NH Of int nd
by having designs prepared and engraved
in the highest degree of the art, lies the
greatest safety against counterfeittng.
The number of arrests made Of persons
engaged in manufacturing and handling
counterfeit coins shows a great increase in
this branch of counterfeting, which SC
seriously affects the community. A number
of very dangerous counterfeits of the silver
coins appeared; none, however, sufficiently
deceptive but that detection readily followed
at the hands Of experts.
AS no complaints were received Of the
circulation of lightweight gold coins, he is
service of persons engaged in impairing and
scaling these coins practically suppressed
this practice.
Bogus Postage Stamps.
ION April g. 1885," says the chief, "a very
postage stamp made it's appearance in Chi
cago, Ill. The agent of this service there
who first detected and reported the matter
had for some years been cognizant of the in
tention on the part of certain persons to en-
gage in coCnterfeiting. Some of the circum-
stances connected with the appearance of
this bogus stamp suggested that these per-
sons were responsible therefor. Efforts
were Immediately directed toward locating
them, with the flattering result that these
suspicious were verified, and the entire gang
consisting of Mrs. Tina Mcmillan, alias
Mrs. NJ T. Mack, Warren T. Thompson and
c. o. Jones, alias George Morrison, were ar
rested and 1O $50 counterfeit 2-cent stamps,
$50 counterfeit plates. and other parapher-
Italia used in their manufacture captured"
The chief of the service renews his recon-
nendation of last year for an appropriate
OF 100000. in order that the operations OF
this service may be carried on with renewed
Vigor, and thus more effectually stamp out
the counterfeiting of United States securi-
ties and coins. 10