The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15

hiduS, LOip ~iNiuB WuSLeu Out Lie
backs Of two bills, 1t was possible to
split them and put the two clean
halves together so as to escape any or
binary attempt at detection. The coun-
terfeiters were then supplied with the
governments W paper on which to
work, and the presence of the red and
blue and green hairs in the wool of II,
Intended to act as a safeguard against
the very thing they were doing. be-
came their greatest protection.
The next thing was making the plate.
and it was this that had puzzled the
secret service men worst. Francis fig
ured out, however, that if an ordinary
copper plate were SenSitiZed by the
common Photographic process it was
the simplest thing i'll the world to APP
ply to it One-half of Il split bill, with
the engraving down toward the plate.
When this had been exposed to the
sunlight for IL sufficient time that pOr-
ton of the plate which did not fall
beneath the lines of the engraving be-
came hardened. while the ink on the
bill left a myriad of lines exactly fol
lowing those which the government
geometric lathe had made in the gen
uine certificate. 1t remained now only
for tie cOunterfeiteI to put tie plate
in Il bath and gov the acid to eat it's
way into the copper surface in an
exact reproduction of the original neg
alive. When this was done it was the
n0Sincf fhinn T., tho Iyn.Il fO. ~, D.-ao,A
engraver to touch up the plate wher-
ever that might be necessary, and, with
q supply of the necessary inks, every
thing was ready for the printing.
Taylor and Bredell were convicted.
but before they could be shipped off to
state prison they were held in the
Philadelphia Jail with IL view to get
ting them to testify against Ingam
and hewitt, who had acted as their le-
gal advisers. 1t was represented to
them also that if they disclosed the
whereabouts OF any more plates recon-
mendatiOn3 Of Il Communication of sen
tence might be made by the secret
service officials, who would thus be re-
lleved of the worry OF running down
additional cOunterfeits. In this shape
the matter stood for several weeks IN
til out at the race track where the orig
inal Monroe" hundred dollar bill had
appeared there turned up q new u
terfeit twenty dollar bill that fell short
only in the shade of the ink used in
printing it. This, like the Monroe
hundred dollar bill, was traced to Ar
thur Taylor's brother, and when he
was arrested-for it had been thought
wise not to take him IN on the original
roundup-Taylor and Bredell confessed
that they had actually been counter
feiting the twenty dollar bill while
they were in the detention section of
the Philadelphia Jail waiting to appear
as witnesses against Ingam and New
tit.
The process was much the same as
had been used In the first instance, *
cept that Taylor, who had been igur-
all the time to discover q washing !
solution that would remove the black
from the face of a bill as well as
green ink from the back Of it final
~ hit upon q formula that would &C
complish this desired result. As he
was confined in the detention section,
it was possible for his brother to visit
him, and from night to night Taylor
on his chemical formula and
sent the symbols representing it out
by his brother on slips of paper to be
compounded at a chemists. Test aft
er test was made Of the fluid that the
brother struggled back in little walls
until the final result was reached.
Then it was only necessary to make a
plate by the old process and print on |
| hand press, so small that Taylor was
lble to carry it around in his pocket, !
he Jail made twenty dollar counter
Taylor and Bredell confessed after
ward that their intention in getting up
his new series of bills was in the be-
merely to get up a plate which
hey might turn over to the secret
service men in consideration for a COM
mutation of sentence, but when the bill
tself turned out so we'll the temptation
o ''spend' a few of them became too =
;reat to resist, and the brother took up :
he old trick of passing them off at the
ace tracks. Taylor and Bredell went
o prison. So did Ingam and hewitt
Jew York Times.