The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-03
CLEVER CONTEMPLATING.
Splitting 80 and 81 Notes and Making
Two 80 Bills of the Pieces.
From the Philadelphia Record.

rum the 4 HiidAeIpnld RECORD.
Many devices have been resorted to by
counterfeiters to raise genuine bank notes.
as well as manufacturing bogus ones
but one of the most novel has come to
light within the last few days at the Unit
ed States sub-treasurers Office in this
city. 1t is not known whether the plan
was ever tried before, nor how successful
1t was in this case, as it is not known
whether anybody was caught by it. The
scheme consisted of splitting s. and a. 81
note and then pasting the back of the
81 to the front of the SIS note and the front
mechanical part of the work was ex-
cellently done, but the fraud could be de-
tscted the moment the note was turned
over.
An effort had been made to change the
zone" to five on the one side of the
new combined note, but 1t was done SO
clumsily that the fraud would have been
seen at a glance, and the only hope of
passing the notes as fiyes would have been
to pass them over with the IS side up
and trust to the man receiving it not
to turn it over before putting it away.
The doctored notes came to the SUBJ
treasury through ONE of the banks, with
the request that they be allowed what
ever the notes were worth. The govern
ment always redeems notes from the face
value and as the faces in this case were of
81 and S. note, Sc were allowed 1t is
not known whether the bank was caught
on the split notes or not
a cleverly executed counterfeit IS ma
tional bank note was also detected at the
sub-treasury the other day. 1t was On
the First National Bank of Tamaqua, and
was burned in several places to give it
an old appearance and then pasted on a
piece of paper as if to hold it together
The fraud was first detected by turning
over one of the corners and discovering
a misspelled word on the back.
Another trick resorted to frequently is
TO attempt to raise notes by FASTING on
an additional cipher taken from rev
enue stamp. Experts can, however de-
tect such a scheme at a glance by the
picture on the note, the same picture
never appearing on notes of different de-
A counterfeit in which it is hard to
see where the profit comes in is the pen
and ink imitation, all the lines and shad-
ings being made by hand. With the skill
and time required for such a work there
can be little, if any, profit in the work
Probably the most perfect counterfeit
silver dollar ever turned out was de-
tected a few days ago. The coin was
the same size as the genuine dollar and
the die was perfect down to the min
utest detail. The counterfeit was only
detected by its weight, and the maker
evidently overlooked the fact that he
might make a dollar of full weight and
vet make a handsome profit. owing to
the difference in value of the coin and
the bullion in 1t. That the bulk of the
metal used in this case was silver was
The most surprising thing about conn
terfeiters is that they make so MANY
bogus coins of small denomination
great many of these are pennies, which
contain apparently the full quantity of
copper, and it is hard to see where anv
large profit can be made. The makers
of these are mostly foreigners, who are
content to operate for small profits In
the case of dimes and quarters many
are made with the full quantity of metal
but the designs are so imperfect that
they can readily be detected.
DIR. James Stuart Ayres of Chicaqo
said to be the oldest praeticing homer
pathic physician in the United States. has
just celebrated MS golden wedding. He
Stuart.