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Show ! HOW SLEUTHS MARK MONEY Pinpricks Made In Certain Places on Currency Gives Evidence That Usually Convicts. In their surveillance and apprehension apprehen-sion ol! suspected persons government secret service officers often ttnd It necessary to "'make the money" handled han-dled by such persons. There are various va-rious methods of so marking the national na-tional currency, one of the mosi novel or which is the pinprick. The note to he marked Is. say, the Jo silver certitlcale bearing the vignette vi-gnette of an Indian chief in his full regalia re-galia of feathers and trappings and presenting a full-face view. With the aid of a pin the secret service man mukes two punctures In the bill directly di-rectly in the pupils of the Indian's eves. To the casual and sometimes even critical inspector of the note these pinpricks are Invisible. If raised to the light, however, the bill will distinctly reveal them. The markings are complicated by the following process: The pinpoint is applied in the "twist" of the large figure 5 at the two upper corners of the note. These tiny twists do not appear ap-pear in the "necks" of the two figures fig-ures 5 that are at both ends of the bottom of the note. The note Is now pierced again, this time In the ends of the scrolls on each side of the word j "five" In the lower center of the hill. The marking is now complete. In secret se-cret It is exhibited to one or more persons per-sons for purposes of identification and is then placed in the till or money drawer to which the suspected person has access. It is said that the pinpricks will remain re-main perfect for some time. When such hills are produced in court, and their markings ..are explained under oath, conviction Is practically certain. Literary Digest. |