The San Francisco call., 1909-01-03
TRUE DETEC TIVE STORIE
A Genius Who Went Wrong
SECRET SERVICE
.RLY CHIEF OF THE U. s. SECRET SERVICE

-. -. g p~oeL,vav would make full con
fession and plead guilty to what was lhel ;1ted ts
a criminal information, he ought to DC pl'i5 s,r
~, -, s,scended sentence provided he wouid sur.
render all the plates used III MAKING lne Is;r
and bonds that he had put INTO glI yos
meet Brockway if l make the necessary allSIs arr -
mentsf And will you promise not to use asA'"s' A'
anything he may tell yous -r,,ees
/ told him would and the meeting was @i'-e
BEFORE going to see BrocI1way had prepared rs
of the various plates that wanted him to turn pV7
to me- AS soon as | him he asked me what
wanted him to surrender. 14;o, a
"The things noted on this list, sara l. n@Hu'"s
The old man read it over carefully. -
"Will you be satisfied with Just tneSeI nc s% st.
~Not If there are Others | replied want tnen
all" H..
Then he talked for an hour about other things
duf ing which time ne apparently sizing me up ~
determine whether he could trust me- and tnen nAu'
That NIGHT went to Washington where, the ned
morning / told the whole story to the cher an'
asked him to ascertain from the department OF JUS
tice what assurances, If any, would De gwen =
criminal information The department rephed tSa
If the plates surrendered 1t would DC eAu - -
approve any recommendation might make Wiz
regard to the disposition of Brockway. The govern
ment was extremely eager to get the plates anu Wa"
disposed to be lenient If necessary, 70 get 'nela mem
Furthermore as the chief said, we did NOT nave
enough evidence against Brockway to hold him oVei
right The situation in his hands We knew NJ
was counterieiter, but could prove nothlni
snrci6c against him And we couldn't get the plates
unless he would tell where they were
The next morning saw Broekway and his attornel
again and told them the result OF my trip 10 WasH
ington Brockway said the plates were buried II
lead caskets iu forest near Richmond Hili' Long
Island.
Thanksgiving Brockway, his attorney, District 40
torney Tenney, deputy sheriff or two and mysen
went to Richmond Hill to unearth the plates brocN
way pointed TO a spot beside chestnut tree, ans
cautioned the man who swung the pick not 70 strik'
too hard But the pick went deeper and deeper, ans
RrOCk Ckt1yaW was
He said one other knew where the plates were
and visions of treachery evidently began to PLAY
across his mind Then he suggested that he might d
mistaken in the tree he had used as landmark
and pointed to another spot. Almost the hrSt OloW
Of the pick brought metallic sound tew more
blows and the caskets, made OF SIX inch lead pip
hattened and sodered at the ends were lying on tn,
grass. We opened them, and found = sets OF stee
aid copper plates that had been used to print th'
$780, $500 and 81 600 that had been troubling
bankers for years together with the plates used tt
print many kinds of bonds We also found set ot
half finished plates that were to be used to mah
But this was not all We found s55oOOO in coun
The notes and the blank paper were IN glass Jars
The plates had been shellacked and wrapped IL
hannels- There not spot them
Doyle was tried in Chicago, convicted and sen
fenced to IL years imprisonment smith, although
his uncorroborated confession would not have beer
sufficient to convict Brockway was released because
he nevertheless enabled to force Brockwayii
hand Brockway let off suspended sentence
according to agreement, and in 1888 sentenced
to Sing Sing for FIVE years for counterfciting the
bonds of the Morris and Essex Street Railway
pany. In 1890 he sent up for 10 years for coun
terfeiting $1,000 United States bond
Brockway made and sold hundreds of Thousands
of dollars worth of counterfeit notes and honda
When he was arrested Tor selling the bond: to jag
from her bosom forty $1,000 bills and handed shsn
to the clerk of the court bail
"And that the only time ever had any money
in my lie" said Brockway-"tbe time did businssl
with Cooke"
Which was true; for it kept him broke - kseI
out of jail
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