New-York tribune., 1907-01-07
BAD Money ROMANCE.
Young Woman Worhing for Re
lease of Her COunterfeiter LOrer.
fFrom The TrIbune Bureau.I


Washington. Jan. 6.-Romance and crime are pict-
uresquely blended in case that now lies upon
the desk OF the pardon attorney IN the Department
of Justice Marcus Graham. a clever counter
feter who Is serving a fifteen years sentence
in the Atlanta Penitentiary, is the hero Of the
story, and a young of Providence. r l.. the
heroine. The young woman is working a great deal
harder than most herones in novels supposed
10 do. the object OF her toll being Crahans release
from prison. Just soon she get him out.
she announces. she will marry him. take him back
home with her 10 Providence and help him start
life anew. She has written many appealing letters
to the President and the Attorney General. and In
order 10 help Graham has gone TO considerable
pense and world of trouble IN preparing list
of prominent counte-feiter's cases. with the SEN
tence imposed upon each. to prove that her hero
was dealt with much more severely than others
OF his like who have preceded him prison cells.
Although there is much sympathy lost for
Graham by government officials who may advise
the President TO grant withhold the pardon.
there is good deal OF admiration expressed for
the young woman's energy and devotion. Graham
caught by the Secret Service detectives at
the Delmar racetrack. in ST Louis. three years
ago. just after he had passed counterfeit
s1O0 bills upon the bookmakers. Before visiting
St Louis he had operated successfully at Sleeps
head Bay. where he had passed forty of the bad
bills upon the who lay odds against the
ponies and fortune. He managed TO get away
from the Eastern track without being arrested and
with good deal Of real money-just how much
care to tell. Perhaps he got back more than the
face value OF his forty bad notes. but in all prob
ability the sum he had in his possession when he
went West was considerably less. Warnings
sent out by the Secret Service to the various
tracks that a man with a hundred dollar bill
habit would probably visit them. and the first
OF that denomination received by the bOokmakers
when Delmar opened its season handed in
by Mr.. Graham. The bill what is known
a copper etching and very good imlta-
ton OF the Treasury note OF the same issue.
When arrested Graham protested Indignation and
innocence. ana for a time put up determined
influential friends in Providence, his former home.
who firmly convinced OF his innocence that
they hired the best attorneys obtsinabie for him
Every legal expedlent exhausted In Graham
behalf. but Judge Adams of the Federal Court.
who tried his convinced or his guilt and
sentenced him terms OF fifteen years each,
One for making the Counterfeits, and
the other for passing them. As fifteen years
the limit for Crahan'S offence, he was
ordered the terms simultaneously.
malefactors which causes them 10 shudder al the
hint OF being tried In his court Not /
long ago he sentenced man to ''Hfe and ten I
years for assaulting and robbing mail car
rier. In Missouri the punishment for assaulting a
mail carrier with deadly weapon, while IN the /
discharge OF his duty. is life imprisonment, and /
that robbing the mails is years. As the /
deadly assault committed before the robbery, /
II is evident that -he prisoner should the I
sentence for that crime before beginning the sen
wife making all the capital possible out of Judge
Adamss reputation for harshness and 1t is possible
she may a comm rtetiOn OF his punishment |
to ten, even seven. years