The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 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.

The third photograph counterfeit of
a Hawaiian treasury note was found
! yesterday morning. This was another
worthless SO silver certificate and was
reported to the police department by
the firm of Thee. 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 Waring & 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 $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 I'M
certain description of his customer. 1t
could only be said that the man was
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.
This second false note, refused by
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
bad ''tenner,'' discovered by Mr.. Abel
at LYMAN Bros. Mr.. Davey explained
in detail the process by which the pic
ture had been made and told how the
job might have been done much better.
1t was Mr.. Davey, who, while a photo
grapher in San Francisco, was the first
to make out the manner in which a
check on one of the big banks up there
had been raised from $38 to So, 800. The
star which had been punched after the
$38 was torn out or cut out and fill
ing of pulp made. The insertion could
not be detected with a microscope, but
was shown in the negative
1t has been from the first the opin-
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hunt for the money makers that the
producing establishment was located in
Honolulu. This belief was confirmed
when on Sunday morning reports and
remittances from other Islands failed
to show photographs in use as money
outside Honolulu.
Some information casting suspicion
in the direction of white man who has
been here for some time came to Mar
shall Brown on Sunday. The Marshal,
with the assistance of Chester A. Doyle
gained during Monday morning further
inklings which caused them during the
search warrant from the District Mag
Two houses were visited.
There was found a photograph outfit, a
quantity of chemicals and a number of
negatives, but no trace of plates for the
printing of bills.
After the search had been made the
man most interested was summoned to
the office of the Marshal and subjected
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tail He was not arrested. The man
said that had he been notified he would
readily and willingly have assisted in
the search of his premises. He denied |
positively having had anything to do
with photographing money. The man
was allowed to go. While the suspect
was in the office of the Marshal the |
Chinese who has the shop at Emma
and Beretania was called in, but said
at once that it was another haOle who
had offered him the poor looking bill
on Sunday evening. The man under
suspicion had secured some red ink |
from one of the printing offices of this
city, but the police were unable to
make anything out of this circum-
stance.
Marshal Brown, who is giving the |
bad money matter much attention, is |
that in a few days he will be
able to tell all about the production of |
the bills. There has not been seen yet |
another twenty like the one at the |
Spreckels bank, where red had been
traced over the numbers coming out |
black in the photograph.