Show MAKE flAil BAD BILLS DRS WHILE IN JAIL M Men n A Ai Arrested tor for Counterfeit Counterfeit- i ing Continue Their Work Behind Bars I OFFICIALS ARE BAFFLED x t 1 Sp Split t 1 Hills and nOlI Use Paper In Manufacture Manufacture Manu Manu- facture of or Bogus O 20 0 Currency CUrl to be Passed nt at Paco Tracks I In the government service service ser ser- vice vicc who have spent their years ears earsin In I running down tho the multitudinous schemes chemes of ot counterfeiting are mosed to be a l little amused at nt tho the Device employed In the case caso cn e of the tho Norfolk and Western estern forged forced stock and the time comment that it attracted among amon people who are arc with the ways of or the skill skillful CuI of all counterfeiters the counterfeiters who sho Imitates Uncle Sams Sam's green green- Times rimes To Toa says s 's the time New York a signature to an order to go 1 banknote concern and andr andI Ii r I a book bool of oC certificates of oC stock s a these off on the banking com com- where hundreds and thousands thou- thou sands fand or of shares are aro turned over every everyday day clay without more moro than the most cursory cursory cur cur- sory examination seems Meem like chills child's of the play pIa as ns compared with some great counterfeiting achievements of oC the masters master's of oC that art serviceman serviceman service serviceman Yet any experienced secret man will 1111 tell you that the counterfeiters counterfeiter's counter- counter feller's fellers device is a surprisingly simple one in most instances and in what is the most mot famous of oC all cases of pr this kind the kind the Taylor Taylor-Bredell case In Philadelphia In T an 18 7 G 7 an apt illustration is found round of oC this fact That case lase was run down py Chief John E. E Wilkie of or the secret service anI and his men until the two con arch were safely aCely in Jill jail and still sun the counter counterfeiting continued crowning feature aturo of the whole story came whit when w hen It appeared that Taylor Taylor Taylor Tay Tay- lor a and 1 1 Bredell actually counterfeited 20 0 I bills in the Philadelphia Philadelphia jail and andI I sent nt them b by Ta Taylors Taylor's lors brother as a confederate to be worked of off on the That they could do this Isone is isone on one thing which secret service men will 1111 point to when they say lay that counterfeiting coun coun- Is really an nn amazingly simple simple sim sim- Im- Im undertaking New v Era El in Counterfeit Yet Arthur Taylor Talor and Baldwin S. S Bredell expert engravers and chemists chem diem chemI r I fists of no mean ability t hit upon a device for duplicating the currency of c the tho land that marked a new epoch In Inthe Inthe inthe the history of counterfeiting In this country In the tho middle 90 at the ther r Philadelphia su su u nn one day 1 j u u on which the red seal nn the the- face appeared appeared ap ap- rimon rim rim- to be altogether too light ht In InI I color colon Otherwise tho the bill was to all intents and ancI purposes eg perfect But Dut it wouldn't go through with the light red seal and It was sent to Washington Washing Washing- ton for examination There the government gO experts o took it it submitted It face and reverse to every cry known test without being able to detect through any 11 of or tho the recognized nl cd symptoms of the counterfeit and finally as as' tho time last resort split it It to find to their great astonishment that tho the Monroe was as a matter of fact the halves of or two 1 U bills which had been split as one splits a bit of birch bark hark and pasted together tog again Many Ian tines times before had split bills been discovered cred by hy the tho department but almost invariably the workmanship workman workman- man man- ship on the time face tace and back had borne bOlno some defect that gave away the coun- coun j i. i terrelt Immediately In this bill hili how how- j ever no such defects were traceable I i The myriad lines which tho limo geometric r lathe athe had apparently put nut In tho the border about aboul the figures and the time printing C were so go near like the lie lines which bona bonafide bonafide f fide lathes had put in the hor borders of hon honest t currency that no no clew was mas of offered of- of creel oven even on a r second and inspection in inspection In- In to the time nature of the new f i counterfeit The letters themselves I and goad the general printing work worle on un the i bill measured up with tho the letters letter's anti ami an c I figures on the time original to the lust last fraction of a millimeter The portrait was a 11 pei perfect feet reproduction and gentt gent gen ell ell- t v cr orally speaking the bill wa was aa as n near ar the the real read thing as It Il could po possibly be All but the red reel t seal that seal wasn't want dark k enough h r Si f Traced to Turf flUr Follower So they started start d up In hr Philadelphia tho most notable counterfeiting hunt huntor of or tho iho century and when a warning had been sent to all banks banI and other Ja largo o handl handlers Is I's of oC mone money and antI to tho the throughout the country various other Monroe bills turned up UI with the tho light red seal cal Inthe in inthe inthe the corner cornel Several Sc of or them were traced to a known well race track truck and finally a a. man named Taylor who generally gen en- en made and paid his hla debts debts by hundreds came under suspicion Yet Yel the principals In tho the case ca c could not he be penned penner down clown and It was WRt evident that this thin Taylor who paNIc passed 11 the mone money was wan simply a subordinate In III tho the gi gigantic gigantic gl- gl gantic swindle dwindle f so time the government gO T men Inca bided their time lime But That the they took tool Arthur Taylor a brother of the raco race track spender and antl his hili sedate am-sedate Baldwin S. S Bredell under un- un dor der surveillance ur Months 1 passed missed th the tiu newspapers which had taken up time the ca caw caLc at t first t dropped it and so 80 far as us 1 t any one ono knew the m mystery of tho ho f Monroe was in Ina a a fair ah way way way-t to togo togo go o down in history unsolved Chief m men n however neVI never I for a minute lost sight of Arthur ray Taylor lor loral and al Baldwin Bredell anti and finally they m followed them on a n trip trill to Lancaster Pa where they had a n conference with tj tho time firm hm of or Jacobs Kendig cigar manufacturers As Its a lI result HUlt the time revenue stamps that went on ou tho ho Jacobs Kendig cigar boxes i were mero rather carefully examined h by the secret service er men and the tho arrest CIt of everybody v concerned I ing In Taylor Bredell time tho cigar manu manu- rs Assistant ex-Assistant District Attorney Attorney ney Ingam of Philadelphia and find a a. Philadelphia lawyer named followed Expert Gets n Clew Quo Ono thing that puzzled the government govern govern- government ment sleuths even ovon after tho arrests z S was Walt the fact that the tho counterfeiters appeared to have e no very extensive plant Plates w were re found of the the Mon Mon- Monroe lon lon- roo roe hundred dollar bill and also of ot ofa n a Lincoln fifty dollar bill 1111 KO so IH pet perfect that the government agents U et ts thanked d i their stars star's that none of them had hat been put Into Inh circulation Various preparations preparations of acids were discovered also but nothing to explain how the re reb reto tc- tc b to accurate reproduction of the engraving v could have hove been beon brought about Finally Finall A A. I K g Francis Francl an export ex export export ex- ex port In photo engraving who had worked with the government o men before before be be- fore COI was called Into tho the case and as asa asa asa a result of oC his Investigation a n theory theol was wn formulated that held together through the trial and resulted In the conviction of oC Taylor and antI Bredell Francis dl discovered that the men had a preparation which would re remove remove ro- ro move the green Ink from the thc reverse o of a n. new bill This explained how thc they got ot the paper on which their counterfeits were made for having washed out the backs of or two bills It was possible to split them and amI put tho the two clean halves together so bo as asto asto to 10 escape cf any ordinary ordinal attempt at det de de- de- de t cUon The counterfeiters were then supplied with the governments government's own paper on which to work and the tho presence presence presence pres pres- ence o of the thc red and blue ane and green hairs in the woof of or it Intended to act It as a safeguard against the very thing thc they were doing became their greatest protection of Plate When this had hall peen lIen exposed to the tho sunlight for Cor a sufficient time Ume that portion portion por por- tion of the plate plat which did not lIot fall Call beneath tho ho lines hues of the engraving became became be he- came hardened while the ink on the bill hili left len a myriad of or line Ilme exactly following following fol fol- ln 10 lowing those which tho government geometric lathe had made In hl tho the genuine genuine gen gen- en- en certificate Il It remained now only for the time CO counterfeiter un Iter to put the plato plate In a bath hath and allow tho the acid to eat cat Its way Into the copper surface surface sur sur- face in an exact xa t reproduction of or tho time original Inal negative e When this was done it was tho the easiest thing thinS in tho world for an expert cn engraver raver to touch up the plate plato wherever that ml might ht be bo necessary ar and with a supply of the time necessary inks everything was wa ready for the printing Taylor and were convicted but before they could be he shipped off offo to o state prison the they were held In hl the Philadelphia jail ail with a view to getting getting get ret ting them to testify a against Ingam and who had acted as their theil legal e al advisers ad It was represented to them therm also that lint Jf If the they disclosed the whereabouts where where- whereabouts of any more plates recommendations recommendations n- n of oC a commutation of oC sentence might be bo made by the secret lee er officials who would thus be relieved of tho the worry of or running down additional additional addi addi- counterfeits In this shape the matter stood for fOl several weeks eeles until out at the tho race track where the original original nal Monroe onroe bill had appeared there here turned up a new counterfeit 20 O bill that fell short on only I In the time shade of oC the tho Ink used In hm printing It Slade In ht Philadelphia Jail Tull This like e the Monroe onro bill was waR traced geed to Arthur Taylors Taylor's brother and when he was arrested for arrested for It had harl been beelL seen thought hou ht wi wise so not to take Finnin him Finn himIn himin in on the tho original roun roundup Taylor roundup up Talol Taylor and ind Bredell confessed ed that they had actually been counterfeiting the 20 hill 1111 while the they were In the detention section of time the Philadelphia jail wafting walt wait waltIn ing In ng to appear as witnesses against In Ingam Ingam In- In gam gain and r Newill Th The process was much the same ashad as ashad had lad been used In the first instance except that Ja Taylor lor who had been figurIng figuring figuring fig fig- all the time time to discover a wash- wash lug ng solution that would remove e th the black Ink frown from the faco face of oC a bill as ai aswell aswell well as the time green Sleen Ink from the back Imel backof of oC it it finally hit upon a formula that would accomplish this desired result As he ho was confined in the detention ion tion section It was possible for his Brother to visit him and from night to night nl ht Taylor figured on his chemical chemical chemi chemi- cal formula an and sent the time symbols representing rep- rep resenting It out by his brother on slips of paper to be bo compounded at It r chemist 1 c fter made ino uw Hum taut inui time J clr cl In little vIals Vials Until Until the il sult suit was reached Then Thon it was only necessary to make a plate by tho the old process an and print on a l so somal small mall that Taylor Talol was able ablo to car carry It t around In his po pocket elect the limo mado Jall-mado 0 O counterfeits Couldn't nc i t Temptation Taylor and ancI Bredell ell confessed afterward after after- ward vard that their Intention in getting up this new series of oC bills was in to the time beginning merely to get set up a plate which they might turn over o to the se secret sc- sc c cret cret et service men mien in consideration for fora a commutation of ot sentence but when ho tho bill Itself turned out so well tho time temptation to spend a few of oC them then became too great s to resist and the brother rother took up the old oil trick o of pa passing pass pass- Ing ng them off at the time race tracks Tay- Tay Taylor lor JOI or anti and Bredell went to prison peisou So Solid did lid Ingam am and Newitt James M. M Beck now o of New York being the prosecuting official at the time time Since Slice tho the conclusion of the tho famous case no counterfeits so perfect as time Uw Taylor Taylor-Bredell variety varlet have ever been run un down clown by tho tiro secret eclet people but with whim the time experience c. in ill their mcm- mcm ory Oly ry tho they arc are constantly on the time outlook for fOl fake fako money of this very dangerous danger danger- ous OUSt because very perfect variety ind th they have haye been Jeen watching also al o fur Cur counterfeit stock toek certificates and bonds to the making of oC which the Ih Taylor ell process would lend itself with even greater ease rase than to the manufacture of government gO cur cur- rency Can Not o lc Ise Scheme With Whir ith the tho Taylor Taylor-Bredell experience In n mind It is difficult to get bet a secret service r man to all admit mil that much safety safety safety safe safe- ty ty lies In fu the use of the geometric lathe athe What Is generally ur urged ed as a greater reater protection Is bl some somo elaborate form Conn of or printing such uch as al tho limo nUs Russian lan government SO employs s 's In its currency Five Interlacing colors two used by the Russian author authorities Hies and while these are not Impossible of if duplica tion to employ them would require a avery avery vcr very much more moro extensive establishment establish establish- establishment ment than most counterfeiters can command with safety Water atel marks havo have been ur urged cd as other safeguards and against tho lie old process employed by Taylor and antI Bredell Bie- Bie dell they would no doubt prevail inasmuch In Inasmuch inasmuch in- in as all tho the halves of or two split hills bills U must t bo ho 10 reversed when the they are pasted together with the wa washed sides out but hut n against the men who can wash both hoth tho time black and green Ink from Crom a bill tho the water mark avails nothing and the device of or color printIng printing print print- Ing remains about tho the only safeguard that a government or an establishment establish establish- ment mont manufacturing securities can ha have Vc |