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 "CoN'
THINKING.
BAD BILLS AFLoAT IN THE EAST.
May Have Reached ST. Paui-HOw to
Tell the Eastern Counterfeit
From Genuine.
ONE PASSENGER TOO LIBERAL.
BAD BILLS AFLoAT IN THE EAST.
Look carefully at your two-dollar

Look carefully at your tWo-dollar
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, 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 ride.
The man got off the car short dis
tance further on.
At the end of the trip, when the car
was emptied of it's 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 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
involuntarily 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 innocentIy.
We'll, 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 inst
at this time when the East is being
hooded with a counterfeit bill of the
same denomination, they should
make their appearance in ST. Paul, if
the conductors are correct in saying
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
1t Is making rapid progress and may
felt bears a startling resemblance to
the two-dollar silver certificate. series
OF 1891, which contains a vignette or
portrait of the late William Window
OF minnesota. 1t is marked check LET
ter Z, plat No 10, and is signed bv r
Fount Tillman, United States register
and D. N. Morgan. United States
treasurer
This bill is being showed mostsindus.
10 tn U
it is a remarkably skillful piece Of
counterfetttng. The bill possesses all
the greasy. silken feeling of the genu-
Inc, the printing is clean cut and the
lathe work about the figure "2" where
ever 1t appears defies distinction from
the real thing. But like all limitations
it cannot stand rigid comparison
with the original. TO the naked eve.
these differences are visible:
In the counterfeit, the right eve of
Secretary Window looks like mon
eye. 1t bulges, whereas in the genuine
Din the eye is normal, and in no wav to
be distinguished from the appearance
or the left eye. In the counterfeit bill
the face of Secretary Window wears
a softer or weaker expression. caused
by a swollen appearance of the upper
LIP. whereas the portrait on the genu-
Inc Dill 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
indistinct 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 ncte
that appeared in 1894. The former
counterfeit was check letter B, plate
No IA, and the signatures were Rose
Grams, register, and Nebeker, treas
urer.
The concert tonight at the Peoples will win.