The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-04

inal. too. The ink was not a. dark as ~ ,vs, m
What \; V a. Sr., n SIsnco ne nspsT aloo contained
strokes: AZ on Nj. !Csstof's note, the seal was was
swHy, they seemed exactly silSs." Mr.. B ITSs
The work he said, speaks Tor Itself e1 u 4:
very easy to- show that these notes are not print
a pen and INK. iii show You one way. zone with
He took the two notes, and folding them
and pictures would iOin. Differences could be-
the notes we're compared by eye. The word
legal" IN one was shorter than In the other,
snSe ' n ns. %fs g sv sirsylif6Sr'h a f En- sD.l inch Ssa d1 sssn
pr,ntIssd be- f iSsn ,, = plate" said Mr.. Basg. they
note ?" asked the reporter.
he turned one out every two weeks" said
Has he confessed1 How do you know that 2'
,,a ant say anything, more about that than I
out: We have every reason to believe that Il
TOOK the man about two weeks TO do the work.
siH month";, lob u I didn't know. Another way
gou can tel that the work is pen work, " went
would not run like this" and he wet his tin snF
and blurred some OF the work. Mr.. BaeR has
fsi.s: TkGsro IS one $50 SpG note pe" and the ot iS%st are
Mr.: Daniel 7. Ames, the handwriting expert,
sMhfs. fPSU1Hs.rds.i's IT. work X%., against sss ! t sss S,ssSI, q &
his own to show. II was of the front of a Ave
York: This counterfeit, was made by Mr.,
h H%i BEEN en', esEiS Ttea = ali Zen over Rsfee ths see eosn aF9' as sna
specimen Of artistic penmanship. Mr.. Ames
to the, President of the bank, who wanted to
know how he had stuck a note on a piece Of paper
was dnmfounded when he learned that it was pen
work. Mr.. Ames said that there was no question
said that several times agents OF the secret SER
vice had called on him, and he had gone with
e eas% Gye who ef had l'i the Of a sTRsF' to p' suTn out Of .d sss
work. The secret service officer had looked
after tTb all rs sssss PEOPLE ,S;D !. v,. .no,0,,,,,r cot,
Mr.: Ames.. was that he was an outsider. No.
body ever heard Of him. He was the last man
completes. | haven't seen him work, but il
ink. That is, proof against chemicals. and il
mixed properly it is proof against water. too:
against anything II properly mixed"
"suppose this man bad devoted his talent to
no work. ssked the reporter what could
The man, II scent to. me-" said Mr.. Ames,
As smsFt to d ss lmi Is ! Genius se a al III an to ofi mita,e !:
the kind Of ability that a parrot possesses. There
Is no demand for imitators. no matter how skill
full they may be. II this man had the ability to
design as well as the ability. to draw. he would
be worth in my. Office from S25 to S75 a week,
W a. hhSoouio VI ho uCoiShiuk
"Could a man make e, good pen-and-ink coun-
=" think lie could l. II he worked steadily said
Mr.. Ames.
terday. by his wife and two children. They
came from Flagtown on an early morning train
He talked with them a while. but got nothing
in value from them, and he directed his secre-
v"sy 70 gone R.0yNsais ssee a'i reused gee in to 's see or A talk WICK WICK
any visitors.
city. The people OF Flagtown are much excited
over his arrest. and the disclosures which fol-
lowed have revealed what was always a mystery
to the nciThboring farmers how the man and
his family managed to live comfortably. and
acre. OF land he owned. One Of the mans
was a. in the he habit Of going to New my York
three and four times a week. He always
returned on the late Afternoon tram.
and on AZ OF these trips invariably carried a
around H%1 Flastowa was that Niger owned prop.
erty in New York. from, which he derived a
sma q inro once, a I'm fa aI.o t ,nia m eesar spi otb snis , to e
he owned 81 1000 worth Of United States bonds,
y whdch Of be iH wss tTyiR had to t aIIn9S 80 Of iow seefpS wa, the he
look ont for this property and to seek a good
Another Flae,own farmer said Yesterday that
the stHement by the secret service detectives
false.
"Ninger was not arrested here" said the
farmer. HE was arrested In New York. and
that story about arrestinR q man named Gil
bert. who had passed one Of Ninger's bills in n
Cortlandt street saloon, and obtaining from him
n confession which led to Ninger's arrest. is all
rubbish. 1t was N.nver hiILself who was ar
rested after passing the bill on a saloon keeper.
He was arrested in New York just as he was
boarding n ferryboat TO come home, and not
here in FlaCtown."
The agent Of the Lehigh Valley road at Flag
town says that on saturday morning. the day of
the arrest. Ringer left on the 9:24 train in the
morning for New York.
BERNHLRDT'S TIE ROUSED.