Show WILLIAM E BHOCKWAY One of the most Important captures made In years by the secret service bureau bu-reau Is that of William Brockway king of counterfeiters and his clever gUll 2 William E Brockway of accomplices In a short time they wouldhave flooded this country and Canada with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of counterfeit notes so cleverly made that no ordinary person could detect their falsity Brockway Is 73 years old He was born In Connecticut Connecti-cut and was apprenticed to a man who printed the State bank notes He was formerly well known III Brooklyn where for many years he lived under his real name of H W Spencer He began counterfeiting In 1850 In 1880 he was arrested by the Government for forging and uttering 204000 In United States bonds He was sentenced to thirty years Imprisonment but he stir rendered all his plates and apparatus and gave valuable Information to the Treasury about similar swindlers On this account his sentence was suspended suspend-ed Later he served five years In prison for forging Morris Essex railroad bonds I |