The age-herald., 1902-02-16
Passes S20 Bills on Several Sa- looms Before Arrested by
 Officer Patton
SAYS BIRMINGHAM IS EASY
Was Loaded Down With Good Green backs and Silver, Which He Is Supposed to Have Got
 ten in Change.

With s24oOO in counterfeit money of the Isabel National Bank of Talladega. Ala, in his possession. Walter Raymond Shyle, alias Walter R. Fiar, alias W. R. Strib- ling, was arrested by Policeman Patton last night just as he was leaving the Peerless saloon. where he had tried to pass queer" s20 bill on the bartender for half pint of whisky. On his person were found eight other half pints of whisky. a bottle of shoe polish, s163 in greenbacks. $46.9o in silver and $ss0 in counterfeit $2O bills.
 In room 19 of the Eagle Hotel was found a small hand valise with two packages of s20 counterfeit bills, each of which con- tained about 6S5 bills of that denomina- tion. In all he had about $2s,9OO or $24,OOO, all in s2O bills.
 Shyle at first claimed that the bills were genuine, but refused to say where he got them
 Several Merchants Fooled. Several merchants in Birmingham sold him goods and accepted one of these bills in exchange When arrested he wore an overcoat with Drennen 6 Co.'S mark in 1t, which he had paid for with counterfeit money. In his pocket was a small note book bought from J. M. Webb. the book man on Second avenue. He bought half pint of whisky from Morgan Brown on the corner of Third alley and Twentieth street; one from w. P. Jones on Twen- tieth street. one from Dunker's saloon in Twentieth street, between Second and Third avenue, and one from John Moore. In each case he is said to have paid with a $20 bill and received change The good money in his pocket is supposed to be the change.
 Shyle claims he has worked several towns along the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and that he came In this morn ing from Anniston on the local train. He claimed to be a druggist, a dry goods drummer and a bookkeeper. He regis tered first at the. Eagle hotel three days ago. In his notebook appears the name of Dr. l.. A. Boswell, East Boga P. O., Taiiadega county. He says he also WOi hSo ioiiduSstt. l itTG IS dlSO a memO- | randum of $1 90 cab fare in Mumford, Ala
 Imitation Is Good.
 The bills are an imitation partially of the 1882 series marked 1324B of the Gal latin National Bank of New York city, and when compared with a bill of that bs nk showed up we'll with the execution of the color and heaviness of the print The counterfeit bears In red letters
 Series 1882, "4S3S'' and "V7S11S," while the good bill of the Gallatin bank has | ''W5675O5 E..
 On the front there is a picture of a woman firing a gun, while below her lays wounded man, with a small boy watch ing him. Under the picture is the word Lexington" and on Knapsack the fig ures "1775." On the other end stands a statue of liberty holding an American flag in her hand. The bill bears a fac simle signature of w. s. Rosencrans register of the reasury, E. H. Hebeker treasurer. Below Is also a fac-simile of w. H. Boyntons signature as president of the Isabel bank and a name as cashier which cannot be made out. It also bears the date of January Il, 1899.
 Seal of Alabama. On the other side of the bill is the seal of Alabama, an eagle holding a strip on which appear the words, Here we Rest" and below is the single word, Alabama" On good bill appeared the seal of New York state In the middle in large letters are the numbers '4S3S." On the other end of the bill Is seal of the United States. the eagle standing on a bunch of arrows and the stars and stripes of the thirteen original states behind. The reverse side bears the caution against counterfeiting, the exact words used on good money. They are:
 "Counterfeiting or altering this note, or passing any counterfeit or alteration of it. or having in possession any false or counterfeiting plate or impression of It.