Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-09-03

time in an inner room in the Kendig
rlace-a hireling named Burns, an ex.
policeman, acting as their picket
guard:
A hitch occurred at this stage, to uh.
derstand which We must so over for
little into the camp of the malefactors.
The collector of internal revenue for
the Lancaster district had assigned
his deputy, one Downey, to inspect
the Jacobs and Kcndig factories. Sus-
picion had been aroused by the fact
that Jacobs, though apparently doing
larger business than ever, was buy
ing fewer stamps. Suddenly the COL
/ lector, after a visit to Washington,
called Downey off the scent, and bade
4 him make his examination merely per-
functory. No explanations were given;
but Downey, who was short of money
and had borrowed S100 of Jacobs,
proved his gratitude for the loan by
telling his benefactor of the strange
incident. Jacobs and Kendig took
fright at this, and did the worst thing
possible for themselves by carrying
all their inculpatirg material off to
al unfrequented sLo. nearthe city and
burying it; for two detectives followed
them on bicycles and made careful
note of the hiding place.
The more Jacobs pondered the hint
given him by Downey, the more con-
vinced he became that the secret SER
vice had got wind .of his operations.
How to avert this peril was the ques-
ton. The whole gang lay quiet from
September til January. Then Kendig
suggested that there was a lawyer in
Philadelphia, one Harvey hewitt, who,
having been United States district at
torney under previous administra-
tion, was probably well acquainted
with the personnel and methods Of
the Secret Service. Why not retain
him. to find out what WIS afoot, and
hold the detectives in check if need
be?
To return to the watchers in Phila-
delphia. They observed that the gang
had struck up relation" with some one
in the Franklin building, where sew
eral lawyers had their offices. For
some time it seemed impossible to
discover whom they visited there, but
one day the riddle solved itself. New
lit, who, with his partner, Ellery Ing
hAm, was quartered in the Franklin
building, chanced to meet William j.
McManus, one of the watchers, with
whom he had some previous ecquaint-
ance. In the course of short con-
yersation the lawyer remarked, 81 snifl-
cantly,s There. is a man in my office
who would give $500 for a little in
Eformatio about the Secret Service:
sNego cations thus opened, McManus
was soon insthe pay of the gang4dol.
ling out information carefully shaped
according to Instructions of Chief Will
kjie,. TO whom, he turned oyer his .-bribe
money as fast. as received
The information which Newitt's
client was willing to buy so freely
must have had a most reassuring eff
feet, for the whole gang wore beaming
faces thereafter. The engravers went
again into retirement One day a
camera was carried into their rooms,
and the next Photographic printing
frame was summing itself on frees
cape outside of their windows. Stimuli
taneously, the material buried near
Lancaster was dug up and carried
back to Kendigs shop, where work
was apparently resumed
Taylor and Bredell went to luncheon
as usual on April IS, 1899. When they
returned two Secret Service men, who
had been lying in wait, entered their
rooms with them. The two counter
feitors were quietly warned that they
must make no disturbance, and that
their wisest policy would be to confess
in full and surrender the plates on
which they were then 1T work. They
yielded gracefully, ant the party fin
ished plates of fine $50 note passed
into the hands of the government.
That evening Chief Wilkie and a
handful of men ran over to Lancaster
on late train. Going directly to Ken
digs shop, they let themselves in with
a duplicate key, and sat down in an
inner room to wait for lsorning. About
O'Clock Burns came, and was. hand
cuffed before he realized what had
happened. Twenty minutes later the
door opened and the proprietor stood
in their presence.
"Good-morning, Mr.. Kendig," was
his greeting, in chorus:
He was too dumbfounded to re-
spond, but bowed to acknowledge that
the jig was up. On receiving the
same warning as the engravers, he
surrendered his plates, his press, and
nine tons of paper for bogus stamp
printing. The party then went after
Jacobs, and captured him without trou.
BILE, confscating his factory and stock,
levying upon his balance in bank, and
generally providing for the recoup-
ment of the governments losses from
his frauds.
Meanwhile. by Instructions of the
chief. McManus had proceeded to the
office of hewitt IN Philadelphia, and
taken him into custody on charge of
attempting to bribe government off,
Ger. Everything had been to timed
that no one of the conspirators had
had a chance to warn any of the 9th.
ers, and it was supposed now that the
last depth Of the plot had been sound
ed. hewitt, in his negotiations with
McManus, had made special point
of keeping all knowledge of what was
going on from his partner, whom he
represented as man of extreme pro-
bity. But Jacobs and Kendig, in the
first flush of candid confession, in
formed Chief Wilkie that all their
dealings in the bribery matter had
been with Ingham, and that they had