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Show EAND THE GOLD CERTIFICATES JMost Cunning Counterfeit Coup ofHistory Nipped by Great Secret Service Head. By GEORGE BARTON Wealthy Engraver In- serts Ad" in Paper and Then Finds" Bogus Notes in Depot of Worth of Many Thousands Dollars Spurious Bills Are Killed" by Qever Establishes Wealthy Friends His Aid. or Another. ', rep-uatl- Spanlsh-Amerlca- Oh, yes, I he answered, unterfeit. "Yaker gasped with cas-mde- responded the counter- Whdre are they now? At the Union station. "In what part of the station? In the baggage room. Where is the check? 'cMHArsdiD - CONV7CTON- Fvmnr, S'AS CBPZWA5 TIF5WS SJmSVS 7ms 7747 ' TQgrAYG. No. 97 North Academy Avenue, Buy Buggies Built in Pko-v-o at 5 So., 115 W. BY THE lisrdiQoeluo. Curb your well with 24-i- n. Cement Tiling Liddiard has put cement tiling into these Provo wells: Bp. Wentz, Mr.Weeter, Dennis Davis, Henry Davis, Sarah Tidball, Mr. Hicks, Mr. Bruner, and L. Iloolbrook. 24-in- I havent got it. Its downstairs in the post office." Wilkie looked the astonishment he felt. Before he had time to put his thoughts into words, Crahan said: After inserting the advertisement in the paper, I put $26,000 In a hand bag, together with several bottles of chemicals which I use to artificially Then I placed the age the notes. check which I received for the hand bag in an envelope addressed to myself under an assumed name, and directed to the general delivery office of the post office. It was evident that Crahan had carefully planned even the minutest detail of his great counterfeiting scheme. By this method of concealhe left ing the check for the hand-bathe counterfeit notes totally disasso elated with himself in any way, and still at the same time within a moments reach. A secret service agent was sent down to the postmaster, obtained the letter containing the check, took that to the Union station, and rewhich he brought ceived the hand-baIts contents verito Chief Wilkie. fied the statetment made by its owner. The chief took up the question of the plates. Where are the plates? he in- ch ANY DEPTH OF WATER -- d g except astonlsh-wen- CO. feiter. Ife continued jllow back" for a and finally thrust-'o- f the bills In his tet, walked over to the Handed him the bill, fhe matter with this note? SEWING MACHINE PROVO, UTAH John Jackson, Mgr. tective. tdg as both of his ,over rapidly to sas correct, and end 'of the roll looked earnestly ate that lay there the bills of at it it bck with a smile. to money. You certainly brought more than said the de30 notes to St. Louis, ,NE Monday morning, not many years ago, a smartly dressed man strolled down lower Broadway and entered one of the In the company buildings ?f the financial district of kk. He was what is known irons of the turf as a jnd he had called at the iirpose of securing a roll that he had left there Saturday night for yas promply handed BY SIECER engraving, you have been seized with a desire to prove how you could reproduce the almost faultless work of the bureau of engraving and printing a class of work that will always excite the envy and admiration of skilled engravers that, filled with this desire, you began work in an experimental way, that you put it under the camera, and reproduced it to see If you could bring forth a bit of work that would rival the unrivaled production of the government. Then, when this creation became a fact instead of a vision, you were seized with an overwhelming desire to see if you could actually circulate it as genuine (John E WltkW. r.lilet. ,py the secret lervice division of the Unl'ted States government, has not only upheld the high traditions of that very responsible post, but has won special laurels by) his personal success In several big cases. He was born In Elgin, 111., 47 years go, and before accepting the headship of the secret service had made an enviable as a working journalist! Wbhe connected with the Chicago newspapers he made a specialty of criminal Investigation which- probably accounts In part for his unusual success as a detective. n war he orDuring the ganized a special emergency force of men to checkmate Spanish spies In this try. As a consequence he succeeded In arresting their best spies and driving most of the others oft the soil of the United States.) J SOLD ONLY Case Against Him Covered by One Ruse fc official4-- , looked Needle Parts and Supplies fof both Vheeler & Wilson and Singer Machines That Clew Proves His Downfall and Detective Culprit Had Every Track is. ' t the officers to any bank in the city of Providence for the purpose of establishing his moral and financial standing. Nothing, Apparently, could be more straightforward. He was placed under arrest, however, and then the service men made an examinaAtewere irame-Ai- secret tion of his room at the Southern hotel. authorities and conAn W. Wilkie, the There they found a He in 4,700 money. taining genuine I t service division of was asked then to explain how he is treasury depart- - came to be possessed of the counterfeit money. He said that on the prebusiness in vious afternoon he had gone to the turned his Union station for the purpose of havin ing the return half of his railroad forfeits, ticket validated. As he came out of of the the ticket agent's office, the electric Hem to visit lights were suddenly turned on in einly and the waiting room, and he saw .in the vie in-- corner on the floor a long white enHe picked it up and found velope. that it contained $3,000 in $100 bills. He immediately went to the office of one of the local newspapers and inserted an .advertisement telling of his discover' and offering to restore the This part mohey to its lawful owner. of his story was verified oy the little identification check which is given to classified ad" patrons by the big daily newspapers. In addition to this there was a clipping from the paper containing a copy of the advertisement which read as follows: Found: In the Union station late yesterday afternoon a sum of money in bank notes which owner may have after proving property, by applying to this office. John E. Wilkie, who had been m Ukectin the movements of his sub- ordinates by wire, determined to take ns hold of the case in person. He immediately took a train for St. Louis, and after a number of ..interviews with his associates in that city, bejan to' consider how to reach the link in the strong chain of probability with which Mr. Crahan was surrounded. One of the earliest 'Jenients made in thef lnvestiga-ato 'discover thd exact hour chick the - electric lights were station.1 The 'd on in the ! ncer of the e.ec (limrplant was con-showed that rod his, o'1' date the switch into operation had I: 40. Wilkie next elver his roll and lor forJr more notes of ,Th;t morning hebefore and vl 30 or 40 of the V been,located in e suit-cas- e ,Tele-igent- s Cin-Or- - N-1- quested a report upon the exact time at whlcji the advetisement was acThe clerk who received the cepted. notice was finally located, and he remembered distinctly that he had stopped work on that afternoon at five o'clock; the ad. which he had received was the fifth or sixth above the last one, and, according to his own calculation, it must have been t four oclock. handed in at This pointed to a discrepancy in statement of one hour and ten minutes. It was important. It was the thin entering wedge which might produce great results. One of the significant discoveries among Crahans effects was a number of programmes of races at Gravesend and two or three of the eastern tracks, not to speak of one particular programme which contained the entries of the races where the first bookmaker had received the $100 bill which he deposited with his roll in the Crahan Broadway Trust company. calmly admitted that he had attended all of these races; that he was a lover of horse flesh and that he occasionally made small wagers on the results; but he denied positively having passed any of the other $100 bills, and said that, he had never had them in hi3 possession until he found the white envelope at the Union station in St. half-pas- Cra-han- s Louis. Wilkie did some very severe thinking at this stage of the game, and out of it all came the theory that if Crahan was guilty, he might have used similar subterfuges in passing counterfeit money at the eastern tracks. The chief thereupon telegraphed New Yprk and ordered that a careful search be made of the files of all the New York newspapers for the two months covering the racing season. It was like searching for the needle in the pYoverblal haystack, but it bore fruit, for in the New York Herald of May 24 the searchers discovered this advertisement: Found: At the Grand Central station of l.ate yesterday afternoon a sum money in bank notes which owner may have, after proving property, by apHerald office. plying to It is hardly necessary to say that by office which this lime M.r Wilkie had several spe nd. and re- j cimens of Gillian's handwriting. After s 1 d r-- -'ds 'f apen- - - . the ad. was located in the Herald, the original copy was found in the records of the office and it was in the handwriting of Marcus Crahan. The government was now in possession of sufficient evidence to convict Crahan, both of passing and having In his possession counterfeit money, but the authorities did not know where the plates were, and how the money had been printed. The big problem was to locate the plant, to pull it up by the roots, and effectually stop the circulation of these spurious notes. The two men sat down together, and Crahan was given a breakfast that would have delighted the palate, and warmed the heart, of the most confirmed epicure. It was topped oft with a fine Havana cigar, and then, this formality having been disposed of, Mr. Wilkie proceeded to give Crahan the third degree. But this third deso called, differed as widely gree, from the popular conception of the operation as the day differs from the night. , Crahan, said Wilkie, your conviction is as certain as that the sun is shining this morning." Wilkie followed this up by plausible argument along the same line, and always pausing long enough to ' permit his words to sink Into the mans , consciousness. The argus-eyerepresentative of the United States government knew by experience that there is nothing in this world mort difficult for a man to do than to ad mit to another man that he has been guilty of wrong. He realized, therefore, the necessity of giving .Crahan an opportunity of confessing He did this by suggestgracefully. ion,- by innuendo, by appealing, to the mans pride, by pleading with his patriotic instinct, and, at last, by laying siege to his sense of justice. He said d in substance: Ciahan, these notes are works of art, and it is a great shame that a man of your unusual talent should have, in a moment of weakness, permitted yourself to commit such a flaI grant wrong against the pubjic. am sure, from seen of you, that while you made the counterfeits, you did not originally Intend to do so. I feel that, in view of your recognized ability, and tlieifjict that you are a student and enthdsXa what-Ihav- e Provo Meat and Packing (. g quired. In a storage warehouse in Providence, was the reply. He admitted that no one In his business establishment was aware that he knew anything whatever of the mechanical part of the work, but the man, with a cunning almost beyond belief, had perfected himself In the art of etching. After that he pur chased a press in New York city and had it delivered in the middle of the night to a private room in his establishment. There he worked and experimented night after night until he was finally able to produce the per- fected $100 hill counterfeits. Then the press was dismantled, and with the plates, placed in a warehouse in Providence. It was stored under an assumed name. Where is the receipt? asked Wilkie. It is pasted between two sheets of paper that back up a photograph on my desk in my office in Providence. ffihe chief immediately called up Providence by telegraph. The local agent was instructed to go to Crahans office and find the receipt for the He did so. It was between press. the two sheets of paper on the photograph on his desk. Immediate action was taken, and after an Incredibly short space of time the plates were in St. Louis In possession of Chief Wilkie. On the following day Marcus Crahan was taken into court He pleaded guilty to manufacturing counterfeit money and passing it oi) the public. lie was given 16 years on each of the two indictments, th sentences to run concurrently. TL was subsequently reduced to ei years. Thu3 ended one of the n St important counterfeiting schemer discovered and thwarted by the t efficient machinery, of itha secret service division of the United .. government. J3 by w G. chapn eer far-velbusl- All kinds of Fresh agd Cured Meats ; Green ahd Fancy and Staple groceries. We handle tho Farmers- Productsand Fat pay CASH for-a- ll Butcher Stock. Nos. 47 to 55 North Academy Avenue. Phdne 39-- 2. PROVO MEAT and PACKINGS Nw. York Herald: 'l to simpnry matters in future conventions it might be a good idea to add to the Olympic games about to be decided a cheering contest. The record. J which has been, broken frequently of late, is now 1, hour 28 minutes, wrbeiieve. As the result yf a practical joker pulling a chair rom under a boy at a place of public amusement in Philadelphia the otler day, the boy is likely to be crippled! for life. Such jokes as this are criminal, and Ihe practice, i joker shonl be severely punished. i 4 The rual editor Is now aeknowledf. ing wUgh thanks messes of choir. peas and other fresh garden green his appreciative readers from sasejr s are still backward in their wh and who take this "method keeping their nambs off the blac.? 'list. of young inen, fresh from school and college, wbo, knowing amperes, ohms and volts, can tell you all about ths lights in your house, but not one wor-kabout the lights in the sky. And P isn't because the men regularly en to at sundown, either. . ? - r writer in the North American Review declares that there are regiments A - A |