Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-27

tiously we began our ascent, each man draw
his revolver as he realized we were going aga
desperate men. The ground floor was fitted sim
as parlor and dining room, and we continued
our way after cursory inspection. At the TOT
the next fight of stairs was long hallway, ant
the room at the end we found the printing plant
We tiptoed back, and the first warning t
caused the workers to raise their heads found tt
staring down the barrels of Our revolvers. II
were three men in the room; one printing b
notes, another placing silk in paper. and another
elderly man, was stamping red seals on the coun
felt bills. He was the only one who attemP
resistance, but blow on the head silenced h
We placed three men on guard who forced
two submissive prisoners to continue work, tor
fear the sudden cessation of the pounding OF the
press might alarm others in the house. That
this wise move we discovered when we
came upon three other men at work IN the front
room of the next floor. Although taken by
surprise, the counterfeters attempted hight, and
it was only after sharp struggle that we SUBJ
dued them. These were cutting paper,
dampening it in preparation for the press, mix
ing inks and making bundles of the completed
counterfeits. We marched these men back with
the others and placed them under guard.
But so far we had not captured Brockway,
and without him the whole affair was a failure.
a lookout was posted at a front window while
the rest of made a search of the house. We
found no plates besides those on the press.
The Capture of Brockway
THE woman of the house was the first to
i return, and she was easily subdued; in fact,
pleading innocence, she offered to help us IN
every way possible. Shortly afterward Brockway
arrived. AS he stepped into the entry revolver
thrust into his face and he was ordered to
surrender. He complied with the greatest of
good humor, and even INDUCED IN a laugh at
the neat way in which we had trapped him. 1t
was general saying that when Brockway
l9rohed Such
trouble; so we handcuffed him for safety. He
made no resistance, but his good humor seemed
10 melt away when the irons were fastened on
his wrists. We decided not to permit him to
mingle with the other prisoners, and so started
with him toward a separate room on the second
floor.
As we neared the top of the first flight OF
stairs, Brockway made several efforts to bear
over toward the carved panels in the WanScot-
ing with his shoulder, and for some instructive
reason | never could explain pushed him away
and made him keep to the balusters. l may
be mistaken, but in view of later developments
am convinced that my watchfulness saved all
our lives.
Brockway was polteness itself. but would not
furnish the slightest information. We put him
through the third degree time after time, but
to all our questions regarding the missing plates
he was sphinx. We finally came to the
clusion that it would be better to keep the T
oners at the house until some of the outside age
of the counterfeiters strayed into the net.
judgment partly indicated in this resp
by the following night five men had arrived
been nabbed one by one. These were go
tweens' and showers" from out of town who
come in for supplies of bad money.
Until the following night we kept house with
band of captives. Meanwhile large furniture
was being sent from New York in which to rem
the prisoners secretly. This arrived during
evening of the second day, and with much sp
caution permitted the prisoners were placed II
1t fell to my lot to escort Brockways "broth'