The Sunday globe., 1901-08-04
BOLD CONIACKERS !
Miles Ogle, Who Recently Died after
a Fifteen Stretch.
AND THE FAMOUS jim GUY0N


Ing Rewards and Vg.ant Secret Service
Ssuths-An Interesting Chapter ON Coun-
tertelters, Their Exploits, Escapes and
Experiences With Detectives and The Public
Miles Ogle the most noted counter
feiter in the United States, recently
died, at the expiration Of a l5-year sem
tence given him in Memphis in Sep
tember. 1890. his good time earned
while i'm prison being over four years.
This man was the prince of "coni-
ackers and did time In the Allegheny
City peuitenuary, Pennsylvania; SIX
years i'm the Chster, Ill, prison, and
Is years i'm the Columbus, o., peniten-
tentary. where the writer made his ac-
uuaintance and subsequently took
down his history for the prison publ.
cation known as Lights and Shades Do
suu sold at that prison by the super
intendent Of schools, a semispeculat-
i've schoolteacher named Danl j. Nor
gan.
The Globe will only quote the follow
ing from Ogles talk, as an illustration
of how q man once fallen is prevented
from ever reforming, If II is to the in
terest of the police, or rather, detec-
tives, to keep him up to a criminal ca
reer Ogle says:
81 begin with the year 1871 ! was
tried i'm Pittsburg Pa, for having in
my possession counterfeit plates and
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and being found guilty ! was sem
fenced to the penitentiary of Allegheny
City for a term of eight years. ! spent
a large sum of money. i'm various ways,
for a commutation of this sentence or
to secure a pardon, in which | failed,
and had to serve out my term. In con-
sequence Of this first failure to secure
a little mercy ! became consequently
foolish-which I thought was smart.
ness-and left the prison determined
to get even / almost Immediately
went to work engraving plates, and
amongst the rest Of my product, | cut
a plate for $50 silver certificate, and
shortly after a $40 plate on the Third
National Bank of Cincinnati Both OF
these productions were fair specimens
of the engraver's art and more | need
not say
Fifteen months of a free run since
my release from the Allengheny peni-
tentiary, and ! again found myself un-
der Arrest at Memphis, Tenn. with 49,
GOO of counterfeit money on my per-
son, My trial and conviction follow
ed, and l was sentenced to six years
imprisonment in the penitentiary at
Chester, H.
AT the expiration of my term l
concluded to reform, and never touch
nor handle another plate, nor another
dollar of counterfeit money, My eX-
perience in crooked work was a dear
one, and besides, 1 found the detectives
to be more interested in keeping me in
the business than | was myself In
deed, after giving up to Detective b
further mention of whom will be
made) all the counterfeit money, some
SIS, 900 in twenties and tens, shortly
after my arrest at Memphis in 1885,
the detective made every effort in his
power to induce me to consent to
statement he wanted to give the press,
that the amount l turned up was $780,
600 or at least $4,000, Just to make
the thing look big Miles, you know
was the clinching argument Of this
specimen of a United States officer He
wanted his reputation enlarged, and
probably my sentence also.
after my release from Chester pris
on, did nothing that could put me in
the clutches of the law. | therefore
had no fear of the officers | Travelled
around the same as any other citizen.
/ was often in Cincinnati and st. Louis,
and alWays appeared openly in the
most public places, such as the theater
and the hotel and the gambling joints
of both cities. In fact. | followed a
sporting life gambling and racing like
thousands of others who are on the
turf to-day and unmOlested.
In the month Of August, 1890, or
about II months after my release from
Chester prison, ! was arrested in Gin
cinnati and taken to the Government
building, my captor being this same
Detective b. Here / was thoroughly
searched and $3.50 of United States
genuine 'long green found upon me,
but, Of course, not a dollar of the
queer" as l had long before given up
the business of engraver and counter
feiter. ! desire to make a note here
which will serve as an explanation to
the reader further along, and that is
an engraver or Counterfeiter Of the cur
renCy, State or national, never, under
any circumstances "shOyes the queer"
himself. He simply makes the money
to sell. Showing the queer" as pass
ing counterfeit money is called, is a
distinct business altogether from It's
and no frstclass man
combines the two branches"
Owing TO the inability Of the detec.
tiyes to make a case against Ogle in
he was taken to Memphis,
where the proper kind Of witnesses
were found, and the unfortunate man
convicted and sentenced to the 10 years
which resulted, as stated i'm his death.
From Ogle to Jim Guyon is an easy
and it is of the latter
The Globe would speak:
The story Of Jim Guyon is the story
Of a man who has so far successfully
eyaded the secret service men, but who
will be caught He is the
only great counterfeiter who hasn't
been. Here are one or two incidents
i'm Guyons career, showing his wari-
ness and the way the secret service
men operate
For 20 years Guyon has been giving
the service much to think about. and
his ncfariOus operations have cost the
country fully 100000. IL was in 1879
that Jim began bothering the Treasury
Department with his pesky plate,
which produced a $40 note quite as
good as the Government could make.
The first notice Of him was taken in
1879, when a horse trader, giving the
name Of quinn appeared I'm Moberly,
No.
Quinn was quite sporty and on ar