Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-04-26
Large Counterfeiting Plant

a gang OF business men IN Ian
caster, Pa engaged in counterfeit
ing revenue stamps and silver certif
icates, one hundred dollar notes aud
fifty dollar notes have been discover
ed and placed under arrest. In their
counterfeit den they had between
one and two tons of paper on whlcb
to print the counterfeit notes. The
engravers of the outfit live in Pnila-
delphia. Their shop their is said to
be worth $4,000 The counterfeitiug
plant in Lancaster is said to be worth
100000. Jacobs and Kendig in
Lancaster are rich cigar manufactur-
ers. Burns who wGs arrested with
them is employed by them. Jacobs
bail vas fixed at S45. 600. Burns
and Kendjg's bail was fixed each at
$25, 900. The Philadelphia engrav-
er's bail was fixed at S25,
"These men were the makers o.
the celebrated ".Monroe head 100
dollar silver certificate, which Was
discovered in Philadelphia in Janu
ary 1897, and which was 30 danger
Gus that the whole issue of many
millions was called in by the United
States Treasury.
Not only was the original Monroe
head" silver certificate captured, but
new eEversl. head $50 silver Ger.
ijfirate, which had never been issuetl; !;
a 500 "W. S. Lincoln head note
half completed, aud 2 plstss from
which ct least sl50000 fifty cigar
revenue stamps lad been made and
used"
Jacobs deposits in Lancaster banks
amounting to $25,O00 were attached
by government officers. Kendig got
bail and for the time being escaped
the Jail. The others were imprison-
ed in default of bail The partie S
are charged with counterfei:ing an
internal revenue stamp for the pay
M ent of the tax upon fifty cigars and
a United States silver certificate of
the denomination Of 500. They
we're also charged with having equip
ped factory in Lancaster for the
manufacture of paper. Kepdig is
also charged with entering into a
conspiracy with Taylor & Bredell. ar
rested in Philadelphia, to make and
engrove plates to be used in counter
feitipg. Mr.. Beck asked that the
bsil be placed at high figure, say
ing that it was the most dangerous
counterfeitipg scheme ever evolved
in this country. The operations, he
sald, were unparalleled iu their aud.
aciiy, and, in the mechanical ingenu
ity displayed, the most expensive in
the history of the government in the
last twenty five years.
The Secret Service officers found
over five tons of government paper
iu Kendig's re-honse, also the
Monroe head of the 800 silver certif
icate This was turned over TO Chic
Wilkie by Kendig.
| There was other paraphern ALA fol
the manufacture of counterfeit S1Ot
note and one for $50 note. Meth
er of the plates for these notes hat
|, ever been used.
, Officials took possession OF jacobs
cigar factory and Kendigs ware
house, where thousands of revenu
stamps and silver certifio ,tes, will
f the dies for printing them were found
, 1t has been learned that tho opel
, atiops Of Jacobs aud Keudig hav
, covered period of three years, dur
!, ling which time they have transacted
business of nearly half a millio
dollars, chiefly in the revenue stamp
which Jacobs used in his cigar busi
res, his output being about 5000
600 year.
The dies were made in Philadel
phia, and the work executed in Ian
caster under the direct supervision c
Jacobs and Kendig.
Both the principals are we'll know
in business circles in Lancaster, an
the exposures created tremendou
sensation there
No counterfei.ing case 10 the his
: tory of the government has given th
Secret Service people so much trou
l be as the one just brought to q fe
+: Gus. The counterfeit United State
l silver sertifcate, series of 1891, checl