The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-13

mace. FOR, having washed out the
lacks Of two bills, it 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 own paper on which to
work, and the presence of the red and
blue and green hairs in the woOf of II,
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 II an ordinary
copper plate were senstized by the
common Photographic process it was
the simplest thing in the world to ap-
ply to it One-half of split bill, with
the engraving down toward the plate.
When this had been exposed to the
sunlight for sufficient time that por-
tion Of the plate which did not fall
beneath the lines OF the engraving be-
came hardened. while the ink on the
bill left myriad of lines exactly fol-
lowing those which the government
geometric lathe had made in the gem
uine certificate. 1t remained now only
for the counterfeiter TO put the plate
In bath and allow the acid to eat its
way into the copper surface in an
exact reproduction Of the original neg
ative. When this was done it was the
easiest thing in the world for an expert
engraver to touch up the plate wher-
ever that might be necessary, and, with
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 a 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-
mendations Of a commutation of SEN
tence might be made by the secret
lieved Of the worry of running down
additional counterfeits. In this shape
the matter stood for several weeks un-
til out at the race track where the orig
inal Monroe" hundred dollar bill had
appeared there turned up new coun-
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
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
lit.
The process was much the same as
had been used i'm the first instance, eX-
cept that Taylor, who had been figur-
ing all the time to discover washing
solution that would remove the black
ink from the face of bill as we'll as
the green ink from the back of it final
ly hit upon a formula that would ac-
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
figured 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 smuggled back in little vials
until the final result was reached.
Then it was only necessary to make a
plate by the old process and print on
a hand press, so small that Taylor was
able to carry it around in his pocket,
the Jail made twenty dollar counter
feits.
Taylor and Bredell confessed after
ward that their intention in getting up
this new series of bills was I'm the be-
ginning merely to get up plate which
they might turn over to the secret
service men in consideration for a COM
of sentence, but when the bill
itself turned out so well the temptation
to "spend" few of them became too
great to resist, and the brother took up
the old trick of passing them off at the
race tracks. Taylor and Bredell went
to prison. SO did Ingam and Newitt.-
New York Times.