The Jasper news., 1912-09-26
NED oRMssY's YARN.

'The Forbes gang of counterfeit
ers," said Ned Ormsby, was without
doubt the greatest gang in their spe-
cialty ever got together. The gang.
as It was at first made up. consisted
Of ed Forbes, Little Jack Vaughn,
Sam Stetson. Curley Peters and my
self We were all in the same Georgia
regiment, and enlisted in Atlanta, ex-
pectlng to go through until the end
Of the war, which il was considered in
the south would not be very far Off,
we kept banging away with guns
for couple Of years and got pretty
sick of II. The scraps we got into
were not such Jokes as We had I'M
a8ined they would be, The Yankees,
who, We had thought. would he soft
marks for the southern gentlemen,
turned out to be dandy fighters. Be
sides, there was no money in war, as
It was being carried on. Forbes told
US one day that he was going to quit.
This hit US all Just right and We quit
with him
Il did not know that Forbes had
any purpose in giving up war as a
| profession until we got well clear of
the lines. We We're not deserters, be-
cause we had all served for a longer
| time than our enlistment called for
/ We went on the bum for a few weeks,
/ and then Forbes gave out the scheme
| that no had been studying over for a
| long time. This was nothing less than
/ to food the south with bogus counter
felt Confederate notes. He believed
that the south would be successful,
and that We would not have any diff.
iculty in rolling in millions of dollars.
| The game looked Ike a cinch, and we
did get up a stock OF bills represent
ing enough money to buy a small
state, when the Confederates won
their final battle. but the CinCh turned
out to be tainted with foolishnesa, and
We were badly left In the end.
"Our glorious scheme was knocked
20 smlthereens when Lee surrendered
The whole gang Went north with a
pretty largo-sized stock Of property
which We disposed of at good prices
We came out pretty large winners, but
It made us sick when we thought OF
what It might have been.
I'VE reached New York In the
course of our travels and everything
seemed TO be booming. Everybody
had money to burn, and We Jumped
in to get some OF II. Forbes put up
a Job to get possession OF several gov
ernment printing plates. The iot
would have been successful II TAttle
Jack Vaughn, who was as clever an
artist in his line IS ever broke stone
for the state, hadn't got drunk ir
Washington and given enough OF the
snap away 10 throw us down. Forbes
was the maddost man you ever saw
when he heard OF Vaughn's fool trick
and he hunted for Little Jack for g
month for the purpose Of killing him
Vaughn kept out OF the way unit
Forbes got cooled on, and then hC
Joined the rest OF tho gang.
"But you could not keep Forbes
down with a few little cetbacEs, ant
It did not take him long 10 get on III,
move again. He hired house in Flat
bush, L. ]. II was in the outs kirts o.
tho village, and We all went there tS
live, There had TO be some cxcus,
for a lot OF men living IN hous,
with a couple Of negro servants. 8,
We had n sign painted and hung ou
near the front gate, inscribed Euro
ka Club.' In order 10 stop suspicion
We invited several Of the inAuentia
citizens 10 dino with us, and we treat
ed thom Ike lords They woul,
swear by us through thick and thin
, We were all the time quietly perfect
ing our counterfei.I-g plant Curle!