The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-07

duce in counterfeiting bank notes," said the prisoner, "are the portraits. The endless variety of expression in the hu- man countenance is beyond the art of most men. If one fails to reproduce the exact shade, of expression in the por- traits of the well dnown men appearing on bank notes the public will instant ly discover the bad work
 NO PRAISE FOR DETECTIVES.
 In speaking of secret service arrests and his experience with detectives Broadway says that chance" discovers more guilty men than the best detec- tives. He declares that he reformed twelve years ago when he left Sing Sing and had no intention of doing any thing again of an illegal character. But he soon discovered that no matter how honestly he lived enemies still bounded him, and it was easy to take advantage of circumstances that might be twisted into suspicious acts and yet be entirely innocent
 As to the counterfeiting of coins Broadway believes the proportion is small compared with paper money manufactured. The process of counter feiting hard money is easy. Many per sons are in it and but few dollars in capital is required. All one needs for the metal is one and one-half pounds of tin with an alloy of antimony and bis muth and couple of pints of plaster of partis. To make the coins look like sil yer give them a bath in nitric acid and salt. To change them to gold add mu- | lrio 4s< .s1 |
 Manufacturing counterfeit coins to circulate in foreign countries, especial ly in South America, has long been one of the productive industries of the coun- terfeiting members of the community. But as rule this kind of money is made to order for foreign rascals, who come to this country to have it manu- lfactured for distribution by their own foreign gangs of crooks.
 :. BROCKWAY'S NEOGHBORS.
 Brockway's cell is on the second story of the southern tier of the prison. His next door neigbor is McAllister, one of the Paterson young men there serving a Ing sentence for the murder of Jen nie Bosschieter. The warden says they are the best behaced men in prison.
 Broadway said he had great sympa thy for the boys and was deeply inter- ested Il their case and story. Owing to the excellent management of the big prison the young men who are going to die" are in good health and waxing more robust every day. 1t is remarka- ble what miracles a model prison can perform. Here is Broadway, long the terror of the government and it's picked men of the secret service, transformed into benevolent appearing, fascinating man, who revels in literature and is the best read man in the prison. His fa- vorite books after works on science and logic are the novels of Scott and Thack- cray and the poetry of Burns and Shakespeare.
 It is worth noting that before he be- came printer in New Haven Brock way when poor orphan boy, left by Presbyterian parents, began his career in the studio of Professor Morse, then a portrait painter, and later the discover Ter of telegraphy. Here Broadway learned something of art. Professor Morse was experimenting in the direc- tion of printing in colors and was as sisted by an efnploye of Charles Tappan
 & Co, bank note printers of that day. l Young Broadway soon bettering his condition, went as an apprentice to Tappan & Co.,, and there learned the bank-note business. Later when he got into trouble by being falsely accused, as he claims, he wanted to become 8 sailor. He shipped as a cook, but met disaster, came near freezing to death,
 and finally returned to his old shop and continued perfecting himself in the art of bank-note printing. He became famed for his great skill and was selec- ted to print the plates illustrating Trum-
 bulls History of Connecticut"
 Broadway assured me that he had no ] grievances and no duarrels to pick with
 any one after his release next month.
 He proposes to live quietly and honest
 ly and try to enjoy the remaining years
 of his eventful life
 There is one thing I want to deny
 most emphatically," said he as I was taking leave of him, that I have been at the head of gang of eounterfeiters.
 There never was a Broadway gang and lall statements to that effect are false.
 I am my own master and am responsi-
 ble for my acts. I have nothing to dc
 with others, nor they with me"
 Brockway's career as a forger and , counterfeiter began in 1850, it is de : cIared. He was arrested by the govern
 ment in October, 1SS0 for the forgery ol '$204,o0o United States six per cent. one thousand dollar bonds. For this he was sentenced to thirty years in prison but
 upon his surrendering all his counter
 feiting tools and giving valuable infor- , nation concerning similar swindles sem
 tence was suspended.
 He was arrested again in 1883 fol forging Morris and Essex railroad , bonds and sentenced to five years 1T , state prison The suspended sentence
 was for some reason not enforced I against him.
 Broadway lived for many years under 1 the name of Spencer in Brooklyn, witt
 his wife, son and daughter He passed 5 as sea captain, and his absences from home were accounted for as voyages The family were members of Dr. Ba- , lSer's Church of the Messiah, and Brock way himself frequently attended the services there.
 He was supposed to be an eminently 1 respectable member of society until ht } had trouble with his wife
 Soon afterward he was arrested fol
 crossing the Wall street dead line land his real character was disclosed