The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-11
SPURIOUS 81 BlLLS
STREET CAR CONDUCTORS SAY
THERE ARE COUNTERFEITS
IN CIRCULATION.
ONE PASSENGER TOO LIBERAL.
WANTED TO PAY HIS FARE TWICE,
WHICH SET THE "C0N'
THINKING.
BAD BILLS AFLoAr IN THE EAST.
MAY Have Reached st. Paul-HOW to
Tell the Eastern Counterfeit
From Genuine.
Look carefully at your two-dollar

Look carefully at your twodollar
bills.
Counterfeit two-dollar notes have
made their appearance in ST Paul.
Street car conductors report having
been taken in by the limitations, which
they say, to be good and hard to detect,
especially in the evening, by the dim,
uncertain light of the incandescent
lamps in the cara.
One conductor states that while his
car was hurrying in a heavy load of
people from the fair grounds Thursday
evening, a man hanging On to the step
gave him a two-dollar bill to pay his
fare, receiving $1.95 in change. A few
minutes later he again offered to pay
his fare and handed out another two
dollar bill, but the conductor told him
that the company wouldn't expect a
double assessment for so short a ride
The man got off the car short dis
lance further on.
At the end of the trip, when the car
was emptied of Its passengers, the con-
ductor got to thinking of the affair; he
had heard and in fact knew of people
who tried to beat the street railway
company out OF their nickels, but
one who wanted to pay twice was in
deed a rare bird The more he thought
of it the more he became convinced
that there was something peculiar in
the mans actions and his hand strayed
1nVoluntarily to his pocket and fished
out the bill-and he saw it was coun-
terfeit.
And what did You do with it?" ask
ed the reporter innocently
well, it slipped out of my possess
sion some way
The same conductor said that later
when comparing notes, he had heard
that some other cons had also come
in contact with the bogus two.
1t is. however, coincidence that Just
at this time when the East is being
flooded with a counterfeit bill of the
same denomination, they should
make their appearance in St. Paul. if
the conductors are correct in saving
that the bills they have seen are spuri-
Gus. The Eastern counterfeit is said to
be the most deceptive ever known.
1t isn't supposed to have reached the
Northwest yet, nor even Chicago. but
it is making rapid progress and NAV
be expected any day. The counter
felt bears a startling resemblance to
the tWo-dollar silver certificate, series
of 1891, which contains a visnette or
portrait of the late William Window
OF Minnesota. 1t is marked check let
ter I, plat NO. 49, and is signed by J.
t'Ount Tfllman, United States register.
and d. N. Morgan, United States
treasurer.
This bill is being showed most indus
tricusly in the East. Experts say that
it is remarkably sl<illful piece of
cOunterfeltlng. The bill possesses all
the greasy silken feeling of the GEM
inc, the printing is clean cut and the
lathe work about the figure 50" where
ever it appears defies distinction from
! the real thing. But like all limitations.
1T cannot stand a rigid comparison
| with the original To the naked eve.
these differences are visible
In the counterfeit. the right eve of
Secretary Window looks like a DOB
eye 1t hulges wherea as in tie genuine
bill the eye is normal, and in no wav to
be distinguished from the appearance
of the left eve. In the counterfeit bill.
the face of Secretary Window wears
softer or weaker expression. caused
by swollen appearance of the upper
llp. whereas the portrait on the genu-
inc bill shows firm, determined
mouth and thin upper lip.
The genuine engraving also shows
! with great clearness the deep binding
/ on the coat from the lowest point OF
| the collar flap up to the neck, and also
! distinctly marks the line between the
/ coat and vest, whereas in the counter
! felt presentment the binding is very
! irdistinct and the outline between the
coat and vest can scarcely be followed
The new counterfeit is reproduc-
| ton, except as to the check letter
| plate number and the signatures of the
register and treasurer. of the counter
felt of the Window portrait 81 note
that appeared in 1894. The former
counterfeit was check letter B, plate
| No Il, and the signatures were Rose
Grams, register. and Nebeker. treas
| Grer.
The concert tonight at the Peoples will win
| Make people come to you this hot aceaAer
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