Show PED FD ED QUEER QUEEr TO RE I i Counterfeit Money Burned by hy Treas Trean Treasury Tra ury ur Officials Washington Post Post 1 The committee Appointed by the sec see secretary secretary of the treasury to supervise the destruction of contraband goods and counterfeit money morey in the office of f the te chief of the has finished e its work and submitted Its final Is repot to Secretary Gage Gase The work of the co Cow ml mft C covered cover d a period of or nearly three cof W weeks The face v value lue of of the money monet d was in notes antl 45 in coin ant The counterfeiting tools S and other property destroyed destro ed amounted in Iii bulk to several tons tong t ns There were fifty pairs of f metal molds mold steel dies pairs of plaster plater pl ster paris dies tiles copper steel and sine zino plates ahl innumerable other tools such as ladles files fes vises and electrical plating outfits There were hundreds of pounds of flash notes mainly Imitations of confederate fash bills with advertising backs bace Although the fae value of this was not commuted it I amounted to millions of dollars The property destroyed ed was Cas as the ac c of two tw years of work by Chief Wilkie Vike and his his officers except that that the unusually large Jarge amount amont of notes otes was or by the fact that the counterfeit count money captured In the Brockway raids in New York in 1895 was in n the collection In these thes raids possession was as secured of f In notes and Cana dian notes which had been retained as evIdence against Dr Bradford the Bradfor leader of the gang at the expiration of the sentence e he was then serving The death of Dr Br Bradford in Sing Sing prison rendered the tle notes useless and they were accordingly destroyed Of Or O the remaining r notes destroyed about ab ut was in Hancock and 2 bills bUs put on in Detroit by the Johnson brothers The operations of or these counterfeiters were among the most suc essul In the among of the ser sen service service vice The 4 notes alone were circulated for fo a a of eight eight years Jear before their authors were finally run to earth That they were circulated Is evi eI by b the U fact that hardly a week goes bv by that some of them tieni t em do not find their the redemption division of or the treasury treas r The counterfeit wa was a dangerous one and could only be ue e upon careful examination by ex cx experts expert ports pert The Johnson brothers of bf whom there were three thre at the the th time bf of their arrest errest in 1898 came mame from a long long line Une of daring counterfeiters and were es e Je an trained ifor for the business The Industry Indus to was u started by y 4 their eb grand ather and arid grandmother back in the COs CO carried carrie on onby by their father and tle mother mohr moth r and when wh n the he old people ed continued by of children Am mong m pg the property destroyed ed there u ulso th tA the stuff tuf captured from a stir suc nC c L t German Gorman counterfeiter v named l who operated in New York and vicinity He had a dangerous litho lithograph lithograph graph of th 0 Hendricks H head note and DU put large lare numbers of them Jn In cir clr circulation o c The arrest was n 1 maSe me by secret se r t service erIe Jr men from Newer New ew Jer Jersey Jersey sey se and Paul Jansen Jensen accomplice a cOI plies plc committed commit suicide in the Hudson county jail jan The ingenious devices device con contrived cn tried by the counterfeiters to take tk the te place of regular tools and and machinery machiner were w re many man One On of the things destroyed was U an ordinary clothes wringer which had hac ha ed d as a u plate pJ te printing press In Chicago g by a 8 rascal asal a Swede Swed With this simple de device deice device vice ice printed a large lafe number of very ery fair counterfeits o and for a time waxed taxed waed fat fatHe fatHe at atHe He was w s finally arrested d but was n not destined to pay the penalty of his crime At the time of his arrest in 1898 the me Cook Cool county Jail jai was undergoing repairs and was sent to the county Coulty jail jai at Joliet olet to be held pending trial One night he effected his espe e pe and has ha since eluded alt all aI efforts ef rt for fr his bis capture Another plate printing press destroyed was made entirely of wood wd v od the necessary necessary sary sar power being supplied by bJ a wind windlass windlass lass and rope The operation of this waa wai ws necessarily stow slow and and laborious us but butas I as the man who operated it made a 8 10 I j bill bi wih with each Impression it was Avas not without w hout toft I Probably the mot most mo t dangerous of the contraband con destroyed etto ed was wa the lithograph stones captured in Chicago from V J a Russian and an an expert counterfeiter cunter Hid HI lf work puzzled d dhe the he most expert exp rt of the experts and it was a long time tm before the rime crime was fastened upon him In the raid rId which was finally made od the stones and a a con considerable considerable amount of bogus money mone were e but Trvin escaped escape disappeared disappeared pere as o though the earth had opened un tin in the proverbial way and swallowed him A A close dose Watch ath was kepton kept on his wife and after several months montha months it If was discovered that sue she fh had bad shipped all al her ber household goods to El BI Paso Tex From there she shipped them down do into Old Mexico and shipp following up the trail trai TraIn was finally captured capt rea He fought fo I extradition and it was a year before belore he wits was brought back to to Chicago for I trial He Ile is now no doing d tinte tn at Joliet Among the counterfeit count coin there th re is i always ah s more mor e or Cr or le less s of r f silver bullion bulon I This is kept separate s prat and after being melted is turned into the treasury treasur The revenue from this source amounts to I 1800 1 80 or 2000 a yean ye i No attempt is made to t save any of ot the other metal meta property was burned either at atthe the th treasury or in the fires frs beneath nearby boilers |