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Show Dcalb C;.:i! : IhtU. Deadly consmnptiou li::s ftccompiislie.-l what detectives ati-l pri.s:n walls could out do in leiimnbi:v tlie liand of "Pete" Mc-r.-'.rtin v, kirm f count erfeiiersrw ho died t lie other d."v in t lie Ohi penitent i:;rv. In the days w'.;-n coiuiterf:::Jing was jr.ore coionion ;',;m1 prolllable ilian at. preiit McCari ney earned the till.? of ki;s; a in on those e.'iga;:cd in turauifacturi!!. spuriou? money. Ilia ri-hl to it can hardly be. disputed, dis-puted, f.-r one of bis government bonds was c.i-hed in Washington, and thj ho!d"r of the ;."enniae, bond of the same number was arrested for counterfeiting. Some of his government bank notos wcreal-c u:i-dist u:i-dist ingiiishahW.Tecpt by treasury expert s. Xn C:;;-lt:cy iw or.linary man. Al though a vulgiir i'nin.-i in Lis tcas at-1 a noted safe blower In w;:.a good o;.'",mv: r and made the art a study. He was ai ,o i M-pt-rt in n;kii;g engrvhi:; t"o!s ar.d o.mk note paper, a;, d ad lel to his deftness tf. "PETE" Jl'CAnTXET. j touch utni'i-t courage and "..uing. lie j or.r.e .iur.-'pe-l lioia a train gohig tliiity i Jiiilcs hour '. u r:tie from captivity. At nuotLr tijne, wh.Ie in a cell iu St. Louis, ho manufactured a t'cy cut cf a common tia cuptuid a spooe. released several fellow criniinals, aud le I thera ia an escape through a tuunel In the finer art of engraving and printing print-ing be was by r.ll cMa tl.3 master iu his time. Edfore tie rar I.d and his gaii circulatc-1 largo fi-ia:iitlcs of. tate bank bills, rnJ the chief l.-yAw.-c a'jout tiieru was thoir u;:i:i-i-iorjty in ik-.-.l-a and finish. A mau whc.-.? work f.-.wl iiicthods were so well kt:o .va uect-ai-iiy hud to cover his tracks with the greatest ingenuity. At one time hi was a nuMer in the Union army, again a soldier in the r.mks, ar.d at '.Hothsr time he i.'-sned Urge (juatudtio.s of siiurioui t'ovemt'ient ctirrwcy of fractional frac-tional deiiomissvions Xrciii an obscura Texas town. McCatr,or w,-.s ln?t r.rrftrd f con -iter-feitingit IS;;?, atid was sor. inga ten years scutcna? wlion hi diod. |