The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26

night as ne Sat III ms mouse as loao OI buckshot was fired through the front window. killing him instantly.
 Then Rosclie's friends breathed cas- fer. Two years ela'ps ed and the secret 7seryice people made no move. Alp parently Roselle was forgotten His accomplices A knew where he was, but no one else did The secret service peo- ple had, in fact, learned that Roselle was in Southeastern Missouri under all assumed name, but he had changed it and vanished before they could find him.
 A part of the counterfeiting plant, which the secret service had failed to capture. was buried by Roselle, during his flight. The secret service agents bent their energies to finding out the location of this buried treasure. They could not locate it exactly but they got pretty close to it. They found it was somewhere within a circle of quarter of a mile in diameter.
 Dug up Plant at Night.
 whsn this was ascertained a secret service agent was ordered to take lodg inas in this district and live there until some one dug up the plant. Month after months, until two years had passed, the agent lived there. The dread of the secret service was so great that, although all efforts to find Roselle had apparently ceased. his friends did not dare to dig up the plant At last one of the rich accomp- iices, a relative of Roselle, feeling sure that the secret service had really given up the chase, went at night to the place of burial, and dug up the plant. The agent who was living within that quar- ter of mile circle bounced on him and arrested him. Using the circumstances of the arrest as club, the agent ex- torted from the pan all he knew of Roseties whereabouts. He had not heard from Roselle for months, but by means of this the secret service got on Roselles trail, and finally found, not him. but his grave. He had gone to Western Arkansas where he bad be- come a farmer and was supposed to be an upxight citizen. But within three months after going there he had sick ened and died, and he had been buried a few weeks before the secret service man arrived in the town to find him.
 Long Hunts for Nobemakers.
 The longest huats ares usually to find out who was the maker of the notes, not to capture him. That part of the job is comparatively easy.
 In 1890 the great issue of two-dollar Hancock head commercials began. There were so many of them and they were so good, that the Government wes forced to recall tho issue ana suoStl. ute silver ceMincates with the head bof Windom. Five or six months after ward the counterfess Hancock heads ceased and windom heads came out, artificially ageu and SC good that the ccunterfeiters were a<sse to flood the country with them.
 It was eight years attsz the first issue before the mEkers of the Hancoak and Windom hcads were discovered. They distribyted the notes principally in Ohio. As the notes were of small denomination and very good, thcy usually went to the banks pefore they were detectad, and then 1t was almost impossible t0 trace them. Besides. they were circulated so generally that there was no one place where they were to be looked far, and nothing of- fered a suggestion to the secret service. The agents were therefose obliged to make an attempt to trace hAck every note from the HAnks to the deoosttora, and if possible, gws descriptions of the people who had passed tAe notes on the depositors. &ab appeased hope legs, since the man who prAssd the nsae on the depositor had probably received 1t through many hands after il lsft the counterfeitsrs. But, if in twenty or thirty descriptions, the agents could find two or three which agreed. there woald be reason to suspect that the man described was one of the gang. At last, after long and ardu0us labor. the secret service found that severaS of the notes had been passed by man who was described as "tal fellow with a big mustache.
 Was Sunday School Man
 But the tall fellow with the black mustache" was as waa learned years afterward, a prominent and respected Sunday school superintendent. not na Ohio but in another State. and none 1f the clues led toward him for yeare. Apparently tho secret service was beaten, but in reality it had never re faxed it's search. The discovery was made in 1883. when the spanish war was going on and the secret eervice hhad it's hands about as full as they could be. Chief wilkis got a letter from "a friend in Montreal" as be puts it. During the Spanish WAT Chief Wilkie had several friends in Mon treal," as the Spanish spies fin Canada will remember. This letter said that three men who had been following the races had attempted to buy railroad tickets with COuHCcrIeit tWVVAVAhos notes and five-dollar Grant head notea. The only good Grant head notes that were out at that time were some that had been put in circulation by "Old Charley Johnson" an oldtfmer. who came from a. family Of counterfeiters. One of the three vas a lame man. and otherwise answered the description of "Old Charley" There was to be a race meeting at Windsor and Chief Wilkie ordered the operator in charge in Michigan to run oven to Windsor and see if anything happened.
 When the operator got to Windsor he found that old Charley Johnson had been arrested by the police on suspi- cion of being a coiner. Johnson was really not a coiner having confined Himself to passing coUnterfeit notes, and the charge was made simply so that the Windsor detectives might have a chance to become familiar with his features. This, however, gave the Michigan secret service man chance to ascertain that Johnson had two brothers living in Detroit, named Ed mund and David.
 Big Haul of Counterfeiters.
 The operator decided to take long chance, and he got search warrant and went to David's house In q closet on the second floor he found tn a