Show TELEGRAPHIC S NEWS II I I BOGUS BONDS StruBge Story Stolen Plates Chicago Washington Epecials Ibis morning report sensatioaal developments develop-ments in the DoyleBrockway bond counterfeit case in brief the story It that about May let Samuel Felker who is known here as a very successful detective detect-ive gave a hint that he could surrender an original transfer plate of the 1000 6 per cent bonds of the isiue ol 81 if the case of Doyle Then pending in the United States court here could be continued Felker went with the plate which he had possession of to Washington and in company with C B Farwell and John C Hew who had examined it with experts and tbey tried to secure an interview for Felker with Folger who however fused at firet to treat wijb Felker As a result Fplker threater to take the plate to Tilden Hewitt Randall and others Under Farwells representation however how-ever the detective waited a few liuys and Folger white views bad changed during that time on nccount of tome startling facts that bad come to his knowledge received Felker who displayed letters of hearty endorsement from Mayor Harri lon Sheriff Mann Senator Logan and others that gave him a status at once with the secretary The secretary desired de-sired to have experts of tblj bureau of engraving examine the plate but Felker objected to that gang as he called them they being under suspicion of baying bay-ing given false testimony already in the case in Chicago leo Jones president of the Columbian Bank Note Company for forty years an engraver then examined it and pronounced it genuine Mr Neal of the treasury an expert in engraving declared it genuine transfer wok Officer Lamb made the came statement Tne secret service meantime declared the plate a counterfeit The experts told Folger that only one man in Washington Washing-ton could eay whether the geometric lathe work was genuine and he was George Ticnenor who does all that class of work He examined it with his glass and tools and after much hesitation knowing the importance of his decision declared the work genuine and that no human band could have done it in a lite time no hand engraver could have done it The officials of the bureau of engraving engrav-ing didnt know whether they bad the originals from which these impressions were taken but subsequently said these vignettes and dies were destroyed in 1869 and 1870 in the presence of a committee A repon was found setting forth that fact but the names cf the signers were torn off an extraordinary extraordi-nary unexplained circumstance The bank note company of New York which did the work bad a government receipt dated October 64 showing that the vignette had been i eturneJ to government govern-ment It as between October 64 and 70 the lead matrices or impressions must have been made and Secretary Folger had now an ackaowledgment from the bureau of engraving that they bad these dies during that period The entire statement of Brockway and Felker is that these plates werepurchased from an accomplice outside the bureau wno is not named It is said Brockway declared de-clared positively there was an understanding under-standing between the counterfeiters and the officers of the bureau The reports made to Folger are that vary many more than the 204000 bonds found on Doyle have been uttered that the three found at Peoria Pe-oria were a part of 100000 circulated at Pueblo Colorado The statement that 22000000 were issued is adhered to but the secretary believes only 204000 and and the 3000 at Peoria were all that they issued His believed the secretary has now very many secret agents in the bureau of engraving and printing and will try to avoid publicity in the matter Some of the persons charged with complicity com-plicity are dead some have been removed re-moved and some are now in the service 1 he secretary has advised a suspension of Doyles sentence in Chicago |