The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-06-06
Money Mystery Cleared.

Warrington, ~. u, May 29.-Se-
oret service detectives have just clear.
ed up money mystery that has been
worrying the sub.treasury officials of
the department at Washington for
ee7css! weeks. Some time ago the
Sub-treasurer at Chicago discovered
that oil the bills Of large denomina-
tion coming from the collector of ous'
toms at Detroit bore the names of
business firms in ink. Whether it
was some now advertising scheme or
the deliberate work of some person
with an ulterior object in view could
not be asccrtained. The Statute pro-
hibits the printing, writing or impress
sing of any characters upon Unole
Sans money, and the incoming of
the marked bills continued and the
Secretary Of the Treasury handed the
case over to Chief Wilkie, OF the So-
cret Service, to run down. Agents of
MIR. Wilkes bureau visited Detroit,
where the bills came from, but for
some time no clue could be obtained
that indicated either the perpetrator
or the object Of the work. No bills Of
less than $50 we're marked with the
Games of the business firms, and all
the concerns mentioned" on the
1aoe5 Of the bank notes we're ensssea
in the foreign trade. Names of hous-
es transacting t'looal business exolu-
sively and having no dealings with the
collector of the customs never ap-
peared On tho greenbaoks. It was OBJ.
served, also, that the names we're all
written in the same hand. When the
Secret Service men interviewed the
managers Of the firms whose names
were found on the money, all of them
profesbed ignorance of the proceeding.
Most Of them were oonversant with
the law forbidding such treatment of
good money, they said, and the most
searching investigation made in the
counting rooms of these concerns re-
suited in no light. The collector of
customs at Detroit said that he knew
nothing of the strange handwriting;
all he could vouch for was that when
the money was received from the
business houses, it bore their names.
At last, however, the mystery was
cleared away. The clerk Of one of
the importing concerns happened to
remember that when he made a Day.
ment al the collectors Office, using a
hundred dollar bill, the cashier who
received tho money wrote something
on the corner of the note. The Secret
Service men at once interviewed the
cashier at the collectors Office, and he
shouldered al the blame. He was
new in the Job, he said, and was not
very familiar with big bills. There
fore, In order to protect himself if
any Of them should ever prove to be
counterfeit, he made il rule to mark
every bill Of $50 or more, with the
name Of the man from whom it was re-.
oeiVed. The collector Of Customs and
the Secret service men had a short
heart to heart talk with that young
cashier, and suggested q better way
to identify big bills as 10 take devn
les check number on a separate slip Of
paper. The name Of the last holder
OF the bill could very easily be placed
opposite the Identification number,
they told him, in theevent Of trouble
he could be .igst as we'll protected as
though he had written the name Of
] the concern ssllFa Faover the faces and
backs Of The bills. The cashier prom
Used to follow these instructions to tho
letter and the Mysterious marking Of
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