Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-02
EXPERT IN CHECK RAISING
Persistent Investigator Makes Dis
cOveries In Search for
IndeIible Ink.

Stanley j. Morrow of Indianapolis is per-
haps the most expert and accomplished
check raiser in the country. His work,
however, is done only in honest expert
ments. For twenty-five years Mr.. Morrow
has been working In an effort to perfect an
ink that cannot be removed from paper
and a paper from which ink cannot be re-
moved without leaving traces of it's having
been there, and 1t is while he was thus
engaged that he raised hundreds of checks
and drafts and acquired proficiency In his
work.
Mr.. Morrow says he has at last made
the discovery for which he has SO long
sought and that he now has a paper and
an ink that. II used. will effectually pro-
tect banks and others against the doings
of the check raiser He has applied for
patent on the process, and the applica-
ton is now pending before the patent de-
partment at Washington.
In his laboratory at his home Mr.. Nor
row has a vast array of bottles of chem
lcals lined up, all OF which he has been
using in his efforts to discover a nom
eradicable ink. II have made this matter
study for twenty-five years." he said,
land 1 have here everything known to
chemistry for> the removal of ink from
Il L
than any other man, and there Is no
chemist who is better informed on the
chemistry of inks than 1 am. 1 have
been able to remove from paper every
ink that has been put on the market, but
l am not able to remove the. ink that 1
have just perfected after all these long
years Of research. Therefore, feel that
If / cannot remove 1t no living man can,
and that If this ink is used in a check or
draft it affords absolute protection"
The array OF bottles contained these
chemicals: Acetic acid, ovalic acid, alco-
! hol ammonia, perchloride of soda, pyro-
| phosphate of soda, hyposulphate of soda,
cream Of tartar. chloroform, ferro cyanide
OF potassium. peroxide of hydrogen, chlor-
ide of tin, aqua regia, nitric acid, tartaric
acid, and combinations of these agents.
! These, he said, are all the substances
/ known to chemistry for the removal of
inks. There are no others he says. And
none of these will destroy the traces of the
ink that he has just produced.
III / had turned my knowledge of how
/ to raise checks to dishonest purposes"
said Mr.. Morrow. Il have no doubt that
could have been the most dangerous man
the banks of the country would have had
to deal with. but my aim has been to
produce an ink and a paper that would
prevent banks from being swindled in that
manner. During the years that l have
been at this work l have astonished many
bankers with the ease with which l was
able to change their checks that had been
written with what they were pleased &c
call safety ink and on what was assumed tc
be safety paper.
Even right here In Indianapolis have
demonstrated this. One bank in particular
pays IS quart for ink that It uses In
writing checks and drafts. The cashier
felt secure and told me l could not take
the ink from the paper I did It just the
same and showed him how It was done
and proved to him that his safety ink was
of no value in the hands of one who knew
what to do with II. Here is the check thai
raised for him an example of whai
could be done with his ink" and he helC
out a check that. though 1t had been raised
bore not even the slightest evidence of thu
change. News