Show CAN ALTER CHECKS so called safety paper no good experts use chemicals and fraudulently raise union pacina checks following the union pacific pay car through colorado last was gang of expert forger who raided the check issued to employee and did the work so desirously ahat the check were pasted ae all right even by the paymaster a office in omaha and the ws only discovered when the chocks were compared with the original etude an omaha dispatch die patch dated march startling developments were made in the union pacific check raising swindle today which are calculated to alarm all corporations paying in checks the discovery was made that the gang who operated on the union racina system have a method of eradine ink with an acid winch the best made paper abo paper is guaranteed to show the slightest presence of acid or other substance the amount secured by the work of the eana is not yet known but it is not as large as at first supposed the fact is not re carded as of much importance however as compared with the new process which is puzzling the chemists and detectives the paper on which the checks are has been registered until now as being absolutely pr ol 01 against manipulation but the operations of the gang of experts shattered all claims of the inventors of the paper that their paper is acid orlof the checks which were raised failed to show a single erasure mark and the amount of the check in ingres inures in the right hand corner as well as the written amount in the body of the check were wiped out as completely as a cloth removes dust from a table too not content with removing the figures in one instance the name of the eup loveo was removed and a new name substituted showing they bad mastered the secret complexly mr frank brown local treasurer of the union pacific company stated that he had never seen checks so flawlessly altered as in the denver case they had passed through bis hand but a powerful glass had failed to show the least and if he had not known the checks were raised he would have they were originally as made it was his opinion that no other altered checks would turn up upon the theory that the men had been able to clean up quite a sum and would leave for other fields to prosecute their rascality what is to be done is the question which is perplexing the minds of officials at the union pacific headquarters today they argue that the puncturing of the amount of a check on its face by a machine invented for the purpose can be filled out with paper mabbe painted over and a new puncture made for a different amount the burlington people are also excited over the forgeries lor they use the safety paper and they may have to go back to the old method ot paying em aloyes in currency should no safe check paper bo discovered |