The Harrison times., 1912-10-26
PHIL HElNRIcH's STORY.

at is my firm belief" said Phil
Heinrich, that there Is more philos.
ophy among crooks than in any other
class Of people They take what
comes in their way In moral sense
as we'll as in a physical sense, with.
out complaint, I have seen the work
OF years 80 In q second without a
murmur / know gang Of crooks
who spent four years laying an outfit
for a bank and then got dumped In
the end, and | never heard n whimper
from any Of them.
"I had a bit Of this sort Of luck my.
self and know how Il feels. ] found
that / took disappointment as well as
tho best Of them and did not want
anybody's sympathy / was at that
time running a counterfelting layout
in partnership with Sam Ellis, We
had put up somo very fine work In
Philadelphia, We ran out an edition
Of twos fiyes and tens in government
notes which were beauties in every
way. I tell you the work was so
good that we could have passed the
bills on ourselves without knowing It,
"lnste0d Of turning out our work
IN two years, Il was nearly four be-
fore wo got tho plates just right and
got a good imitation paper to use for
printing We ran off big wad Of
money and put II IN circulation as
rapidly as possible Just when we
got things running beautifully, and It
looked like q million year, bloom
Ing ilro hit our house, and all tho
plates paper and presses were de.
stroycd az well as the muto servant,
"Wo did not carry any insurance,
and we had to write up q total loss,
We managed to get most Of the plates
out Of tho ruins In order to put them
out Of the way to avoid arouslng sua.
plclon but everything was not clean.
ed up, and tho secret service mon
began to get suspicious, Some Of tho
money that We had put out got to
Washington, md II made q terrific
musg, but they did not get near TO uB,
although there was a lot Of talk about
the gamo being worked in phlladol.
phla,
"lt was ugolosg, for time, to think
about putting another eounterlotng
layout to work IN this country, so
Sam and / went up 10 Buffalo and got
q few samples Of Canada money 10
experiment with Tho best bill that
] saw for our purpose was the $40
Canadian bank note, It was a pretty
bill, not nearly as eloyefly put up as
one Of Uncle Sans $40 notes, and
we decided to give It q test We got
n now sot Of tools, and laid out for n
two years job, We worked with the
greatest caro- 10 ag 90 avoid lnlurlng
q plate II possible, and We had mag
nlhcont luck | never did such good
work In my life, and / never saw Sam
In quito such ilno trim,
"ln Just eighteen months we turned
out q plato which, I'll bet, would have
been accepted by the government Of
feIalB Of Canada aB tho genuine Hrtl'
clio, There appeared 20 be great
wad Of dust In this layout for ua, but
before n single bill was laid down tho
pair Of ua got tho collar II all came
through an lnQulaltlyo and gabby
plumber who was sent to our house
70 repair q broken pipe, He saw n
lot OF things during our absence
which no did not know anything
about and got to firing OF his mouP
in bar rooms In Buffalo,
"llia talk In some way reached TIE
ears Of the Treasury agents, and Bain
and were caught fed.handed, It wA3
the greatest throw-dowh | ever got
but when we got chance Sem and |
shook hands and smiled nt oug yhpd
luck, lie had not word n n sJm'
piNInt 70 make, nor had I, lAYbet
hat there never were two mfh " lho
.'ioet n fortune 30 easily and he VI More
aaKl t-"1pers,
cd u GOOD deal like king
te for about TWEEN hare,
UhAot lose heart w gol
Ne county Jail | the
AFFAIRS very car and
M I had more thl even