The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-04-19
A THIRD BAD BILL
Another Photograph Of a Treasury
Certificate Found.
REFUSED BY DAVIES & co.
Traced Through Six Transactions.
Report of a Pake-Search War
rant Used-Money Made Here.

rant OSed-Money MADE Here.
The third photograph counterfeit of
a Hawaiian treasury note was found
yesterday morning. This was another
worthless $40 silver certificate and was
reported to the police department by
the firm of Theo. H. Davies & Co. Mar
shall Brown acted promptly.
1t took the entire forenoon to trace
the bill through six Chinese firms. The
trail was lost in one of two houses on
Fort street. Both are haole firms.
Bruce Warning & Co., &C. S. Desky) and
Levers & Cooke were entirely unable
to tell from whom they had received
the bad note At this point the Mar
shall was compelled to abandon the
hunt.
: The Chinese owner OF a shop at the
corner Of Emma and Beretania streets
reported to Marshal Brown SUSPECT
Gus incident of Sunday evening. The
pake merchant recited that a strange
foreigner called at his place, purchased
bottle of soda, price five cents and
rendered in payment a $40 bill. The
! Chinaman did not fancy the appear
ance of the note and refused it. Unfor-
tunately the shopkeeper was able to
give only the most Indefinite and un
certain description of his customer. 1t
r could only be said that the man was
t tall and not we'll dressed. The China
man has been here a long time and
knows a great many people, but had
never seen this particular haole before.
e This second false note, refused by
S Davies & Co., and turned over to the
police. was submitted by the Marshal
: to Frank Davey, the photographer, who
> pronounced it identical with the first
2 bad 'tenner," discovered by Mr.. Abel
= at Hyman Bros Mr.. Davey explained
t in detail the process by which the pic
ture had been made and told how the
, job might have been done much better.
9 It was Mr.. Davey, who, while a photo
f grapher in San Francisco, was the first
r to make out the manner in which a
check on one of the big banks up there
! had been raised from s3S to $500. The
D star which had been punched after the
S9S was torn out or cut out and a fill
d ing of pulp made. The insertion could
not be detected with microscope, but
f was shown in the negative.
1t has been from the first the opin-
S ion of Marshal Brown and others in the
hunt for the money makers that the
i producing establishment was located in
: Honolulu. This belief was confirmed
r when on Sunday morning reports and
; remittances from other Islands failed
) to show photographs in use as money
;, outside Honolulu.
= Some information casting suspicion
Il in the direction of a white man who has
n been here for some time came to Mar
Il shall Brown on Sunday. The Marshal
s. with the assistance of Chester A. Doyle
gained during Monday morning further
inklings which caused them during the
noon hour of yesterday to secure a
d search warrant from the District Mag
istrate. Two houses were visited
There was found a photograph outfit, g
/ quantity of chemicals and number Of
negatives, but no trace of plates for the
5 printing of bills.
II After the search had been made the
Is man most interested was summoned tc
Il the Office of the Marshal and subjected
y to questioning at length and in de-
1t tail He was not arrested. The man
'' said that had he been notified he would
! readily and willingly have assisted in
d the search OF his premises He denied
l. positively having had anything to de
y with photographing money. The mar
3 was allowed to go. While the suspec
:, was in the Office of the Marshal The
i Chinese who has the shop at Emma
FL and Beretania was called in, but sale
d at once that it was another haole who
I had offered him the poor looking bill
on Sunday evening. The man under
II suspicion had secured some red inI
s from one OF the printing offices of thi:
city, but the police were unable tc
make anything out of this circum
stance.
Marshal Brown, who is giving tht
bad money matter much attention, il
confident that in few days he will bt
c able to tell all about the production O
e the bills. There has not been seen We
Is another twenty like the one at tbs
Is Spreckels bank, where red had beef
: traced over the numbers coming ou
II black in the photograph.
J. 'sPlugger" Bilmartin easily bestet