The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-08

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stsoas . hundred banks. s-hi~f VII.
aar fouud that 10 eeety on- hundred
thousand dollars IT american usoa.
~ there wan from dollar and
half tn twa dollars ~ counterfeit
euin Md shis estimate ~ compared
wi,h similar ono obtained four or
five sesFs ago. shows that the bas!'
nrsa ~ eounlerfelting II oa the
~ane The probable reason 81 'ass T.
that the experts are getting tn" aoTs
Of detection down 20 such fine
| poin, that II is almost impossible to
fool them The snea tn the secFst ser
sicr can tell not only the un-t per
| feet imitation hu; also whose work
| IL IT,. II the couniortei'er has teen
/ ia business before For every one OF
/ these Doodle maker" leaves ON bis
product some distinctive mark of his
y
easily recognized.
| New York Is the busiest center In
the secret service becauS. OF The
enormous amount OF money that
changes hands every day. and II IL
| In the metropolis that most OF the
counterfeit bank notes are made In
the west the largest amount of gold
coin and silver dollars are made.
Strangely enough. the most prof
table coins 10 counterfeit are pen
MES, because of an expenditure OF
LIS cents 100 OF them can be made.
| which leaves a profit OF 80 cents on
the dollar The chief difficulty Ii in
getting them into circulation. 1t
/ also takes expert workmanship 10
| make these pennies, because they
must be made with a die The best
counterfeiters pay most of their at
tention to the making of quarters,
| half dollars and dollars. With silver
| at 90 cents an ounce n counterfeiter
can make five quarters from every
ounce, quarters that ring true and
thing The counterfeiter who uses
basemetal can put enough copper in
the mixture to make the ring per
fectly true, but a little rubbing OF
filing on the edge will tell the tale
An expert jeweler and metallur
. gist in Atlanta made ten dolla
piece, the rim of which was twent'
carat gold and the center ten-cara1
He was caught and when the coli
: was examined closely it was easy {
detect the different Colds by the dif
: ference in their color.
The very best counterfeit coir
that was ever put in circulation was
a 80 cent piece for which the work
man is now serving a sentence. This
coin was perfect except that the
points of the two end stars touched
the first and last 5 in States. on a
good coin there is very small
space between these letters and the
stars
The maker of the greeuback is
the higher type OF workman, and es-
pecially is this true If he does his
work with pen and ink instead OF
photography. Not long ago hun
dred dollar bill was put in circula-
| ton by a man who was wise enough
not 10 make more than two of them
a month. He did the work with a
pen and ink. and turned out such a
remarkably faithful reproduction
| that he passed many OF them With
out difficulty. But one day he went
! into saloon 10 buy a drink of whis-
/ Ky and laid one OF the bills on the
bar. \ drop OF water was spilled on
the note and the ink ran. by the
time the bartender had the bill be-
| tween his fingers the maker there
OF WAS down the street. but "a police
| man caught him Had he used
| good ink. be probably would have
| had $3.50 as result uf his labor
I'm the making Of gre.nhacks there
rs one thing that always stump, the
! counterfeiter This Us the secret proc
cess by which the tluR threads ave
woven into the paper The counter
\ feiters way uf gettins che threads
/ into their productions is fn make
ihc note ont uf two ulercs uf paper
pasted taurthef win fh, threads bg-
tween the fNa neN ten de'.Hg
note recently put Iufo circulation
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