The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-02


 made and paid his debts by hundreds, came under suspicion. Yet the prin- cipals in the case could not be penned down, and 1t was evident that this Tay- Tor who passed the money was simply a subordinate in toe gigantic swindle, so the government men bided their time.
 But they took Arthur Taylor, a brother of the race track spender, and his associate, Baldwin s. Bredell under surveillance. Months passed the newspapers which had taken up the case at first dropped it, and so far as any one knew the mystery of the Monroe S10O was in fair way to go down In History unsolved. Chief Will kie's men, however, never for minute ! lost sought of Arthur Taylor and Bald win Bredell, and finally the followed them on a trip to Lancaster Penn, where they had a conference with the 1 firm of Jacobs & Kendig. cigar manu- | facturers. As result the revenue stamps that went on the Jacobs & Ken dig cigar boxes were rather carefully examined by the secret service men, : and the arrest of everybody concerned, including Taylor, Bredell, the cigar manufacturers, ex-Assistant District Attorney Ingam of Philadelphia, and a Philadelphia lawyer named Hewitt, followed.
 One thing that puzzled the govern ment sleuths even after the arrests was the fact that the counterfeiters ap- l peared to have no very extensive plant Plates were found of the Monroe" hundred-dollar bill and also of a Lin coln" flfty-dollar bill, so perfect that | the government thanked their stars that none of them had been put Into circulation. Various preparations of acids were discovered also but noth- ing to explain how the remarkably ac- curate reproduction of the engraving | could have been brought about. Finally A. D. Francis, an expert in photo- engraving, who had worked with the l government men before, was called ! into the case, and as a result of hls in vestigation a theory was formulated that held together through the trial and resulted in the conviction of Tay- Tor and Bredell.
 Francis discovered that the men had a preparation which would remove the green ink from the reverse of a new bill. This explained how they got the paper on which their commercials were 1 made, for having washed out the backs of two bills, 1t was possible to split them and put the two clean halves together so as to escape any ordinary attempt at detection. The commercials were then supplied with the governments own paper on which to work, and the presence of the red and blue and green hairs in the wool of It. intended to act as a safeguard against the very thing they were doing became their greatest protection.
 The next thing was making the plate and it was this that had puzzled the se- cret service men the worst. Francis figured out, however, that If an ordi- nary copper plate was sensitized by the common photographic process, 1t was | the simplest thing in the world to apply to it one-half of a split lbill, with the engraving down toward the plate, When this had been exposed to the sunlight for sufficient time that por- ton of the plate which did not fall be- | meath the lines of the engraving be- came hardened, while the ink on the bill left myriad of lines exactly following those which the government geometric lathe had made in the genuine certif- cate. It remained now only for the counterfeiter to put the plate In a bath and allow the acid to eat its way into the copper surface in an exact repro auction of the originahpegative. When this was done 1t was the easiest thing in the world for an expert engraver to touch up the plate whenever that might be necessary, and with supply of the necessary inks everything 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 Phil- adelphia jail with view of getting them to testify against Ingram and Hewitt who had acted in their legal advisors. It was represeted to them also that if they disclosed the where abouts of any more plate recommends tions of a communication of sentence might be made by the secret service of- ficials, who would thus be relieved of the worry of running down additional commercials. In this shape the matter stood for several weeks, until out at the race track where the original Monroe hundred-dollar bill has ap- peared, there turned up a new counter felt 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 aTested-for it had been thought wise not to take him in on the original d-up-Taylor and Bredell con- 1 fessed that thev had hcfuallY been