Till'Great Luter (Mterfeitii CowiracF.

^ A Narrative of Truth That Is Strangsr Than 4 Fiction.

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"It wa- ten millions or ten years. We took the asmbler’e chance—enU toet" In theee word* William M Jacob*, chief conspirator, epitomised (he most gigantic counterfeiting plot ever unearthed by our government On the day he uttered them he waa a captive felon; only the day before he was known to him fellow-townemen In L*n- ! caater. Pa., as a prosperous cigar manufacturer. Hie chief comrade In wrong doing was a neighbor, William L. Kendlg.'a manufacturer on a smaller scale. Jacobs was the capitalist of the plot, but a man of meagre tnTeutlvc faculty and poor address: Kendtg was a born executive, a genius in resources, and had the gift of "soft approach," like a cat. During the Christmas holidays of 1897 a clerk from the sub-treasury at Philadelphia appeared In Waahlucton with live *100 silver certificates beating the vignette portrait of President Mtonroe. The weak color of the'red seal on their faces had aroused his suspicion. All the experts who cmtUnlsed them, however, pronounced them perfect except as to the seal, and 1 .It had been about decided that they had been stolen from the government bureau of engraving, when one of the note* which had been steeped In hot water by Mr. Moran of the secret service split In two. Microscopic examination then showed that the green Ink. soluble In acids, bad been washed from the backs of two *1 notes; that their faces, being primed In a per manent black ink. had been shaved 1 down or peeled off; and that the face and back devices of a *100 certificate had been printed on the cleaned surfaces, and the thin pieces stuck together with rice paste. These excellent notes were counterfeit A circular of warning went at ono to the oanks. sod every sub-treasury was ordered to ship to Washington all the *100 Monroe-head certlflcatts . It bad on hand. , When these came in a number were found to bear the telltale seal. The possible magnitude of the fraud gave the treasury a chill: end Secretary Gage sent for John. E. Wilkie of Chicago, a Journalist who had done some shrewd detective work, appointed him chief of the secret service, and bade him win his spurs by ' running this affair to earth. That was In February. 1898; the last person sentenced for connection with the crime went to prison a few days tgo. r yean to fflve in outline. Enlarged photographs of the notes proved that the plates must have been made by photo-etching, helped out by hand-work, a proofer which experu . agreed could have taken not less tffhu four months. The oldest of the counterfeits discovered had been redeemed In June, 1*97. Allowing a month loc their circulation before redemption, they must have been Issued in Mny; and four months for their msnufacture wt>uld carry the date of beginning them bock to January. Armed with this logic. Mr. Wilkie took a trusted subordiamte with him to Philadelphia, the chief seat of the fine engraving Industry in America, and the city where the false notes bad appeared In the greatest quantity. They pretended to be about to open a high-class printing establishment, ■where they would need engravers •killed In lathe work, and capable of copying vignette portraits for bonds and checks. Thl| started gossip In the craft, and Mr. Wilkie soon heard of 18 or 20 mfcn who were deemed competeht

The story of the four years’ patient campaign I shall try _lo Kn.

were two partners. Arthur Taylor and Baldwin S. Bredell. who struck him as being worth knowing, for their triends had btid wondering stress'on tiie fhet that, though young and only recently started in business for themafive*. they had suddenly, in'January. 1897. dropped out of their accustomed haunts. Until April or thereabout, their shop bad been closed much of the time; but In spite of that, both afterward wore the air of prosperity. Bredell buying a fine diamond ring and Taylor taking a pleasure trip to PlorHere was a lead, surety. A watch waa set upon this eccentric pair, and for more than one year thereafter no person entered or left their shop In Filbert street, and no package was delivered there, without careful note being made In the reports sent nightly to Washington by the watchers , The shadowing was unremitting, and It toop. became plain that the firm was perfecting a machine for paper-making

la a small way.

One day In June. 1898. Taylor left the building with a gripsack for the railway station. A detective followed dose la his footsteps„ and when Taylor bought a ticket for Laaeartar his follower did likewise. They (Me In the same car. sad at their destination the officer saw bis man beet Jacobs as by appointment and hold a long Private conference with him. What aw has a respectable rigarimsaufacturer for a "crook" eagraver? This qasatloa bussed la Chief Wilkie's

»peeled 100 boxes. There waa not a

genuine stamp In the lot!

Another group of detectives were therufore sent to Lancaster at once to watch Jacobs. They soon noted his intimacy with Keadlg. s'bout whose factory there seemed a cloud of mystery. A watch was set upon that building as minute as on the engravers' room In Philadelphia. Erelong It wps found that Bredell. on one of his trips to Snow/^Iill. shipped a parcel of apparatus to 1 ■ qpslnr where Kendlg receipted for ft. Presently both Taylor and BiMell came to Lancaster and made a stay of some length under assumed names With Jacobs and Kendlg they spent much time In an Inner room In the Kendlg place—a hireling named Burns, an expoliceman. acting as their picket

guard.

A hitch occurred at this stage, to understand which we must go over for a tittle Into the camp of the malefactora. The collector of Internal revenue for the Lancaster district had assigned his deputy, one Downey, to inspect the Jacobs and Kendlg factories. Suspicion had been aroused by the tact that Jacobs, though apparently doing a larger business than ever, was buying fewer stamps. Suddenly the collector. after a visit to Washington, called Downey off the scent, and bade him make his examination mereij

sly per-

functory. No explanations were given: but Downey, who was short of money and had borrowed *100 of Jacobs, proved hit gratitude for the loan by telling his benefactor of the strange incident. Jacobs and Kendlg took fright at this, and did The worst thing pcisible for themselves by carrying ail their inculpating material off to at> unfrequented spot near the city aad burying it; for two detectives followed them on bicycles and made careful note of the hiding-place. The more Jacobs pondered the hint given him by Downey, the more convinced he became that the secret service had got wind of his operations. How to avert this peril was the question. The whole gang lay qu'et from September til January. Then Kendlg suggested that there waa a lawyer in Philadelphia ~ having been lorney under a previous admlntxtraUon. was probably well acquainted with the personnel and methods of the Secret Service. Why not retain him to find out what was afoot, and hold the detectives lb check If need

beT

To return to the watchers in Phlla-

In the Franklin building, where eral lawyers bad their Offices. For bofee time it seemed Impossible to discover whom they visited there, bu*. one day the riddle solved Itself. KewUt. who. with his partner. Ellery Ingham. was quartered lu the Franklin building, chanced to meet William J. McManus, one of the watcher*, with whom be had some previous ecqualntance. In the course of a short conversation the lawyer remarked, sljoiflcantly. "There Is a man In my office who wfnld jive *1500 for a little information about the Secret Service." Negotiations thus opened. McManus was soon lu the pay of the gang, dolout Information carefully shaped according to instructions of Chief Wilkie. to whom be turned over his bribe money as fast as received. -The Information which Newitfa client was willing to buy'so freely must have had a most reassuring ef-

camera was carried into their rooms, and the next a photographic printing frame waa sunning Itself on a fire-es-cape outside of their wtndows. Simultaneously. the material burled near Lancaster waa dug up and carried back to Kendlg's shop, where work

was apparently resumed."

Taylor and Bredell went to luncheon as usual on April 18. 1899. When they returned two Secret Service men. who bad been lying In wait, entered their rooms with them. The two counterf el tors were quietly -warned that they must make do disturbance, and that their wisest policy would be to confess In full and surrender the plates on which they were then at work. They yielded gracefully, and the party fin- / Isbed plates of a fine *80 note passed Into the hands of the government. That evening Chief Wilkie and S' hardful of men ran over to Lancaster on a late train. Going directly to Ken

dU’s shop, they let themselves in with 1 duplicate key. and sat nows In an Inner room to wait for morning. About 7 o'clock Burns came, aad waa handcuffed before be realised what had happened. Twenty minutes later the

•Good-mornlag. Mr. Kendlg," waa

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[ office of Ifewltt In Philadelphia, and taken him into custody on a charge cf attempting to bribe a government offi cer Everything had been to limed that no one of the conspirators had .had a chance lo v(aru any of the others. and it was supposed sow that th« last depth of the plot had been sound eJ. Newlti. In hla negotiations with McManus. Itkd made a special point of keeping all knowledge of what waa going on from hla partner, whom he represented as a man of extreme pro blty. But Jacobs and Kendlg. In the first flush of candid confession, informed Chief Wilkie that all theli dealings in tha bribery matter had been with Ingham, and that they had never given any money to Newltt. So a detective descended in due course upon Ingham, and the virtuous and the wicked-'partners were lodged together in JaiL It was thought beat also to lock .up Deputy Collector

Donney.

The two engraveta engaged tor their counsel ex-Governor Pattlaoa and John 8. Semple. They attempted to gala partial immunity by hinting that they had made and burled the plates for a dangerous *10 note, which other parties would use if they were punished. But Mr. Pattlaon advised them not to trifle with MEtlce. and through hla Intervention Che platen were dug up aad put out of harm’s way. While In Jail, however, they resolved to mako another effort to blackmail the government. The necessary materials were mggled In to them, and they rigged up a-tent of blankets, beneath which they could work at night by the light of a taper without being seen by the guard in the corridor. Under these Lying conditions they produced plates for printing a very clever counterfoil of the *20 note bearing the portrait of Hamilton. Bredell lured hla father into helping him by a pretence that he had Invented a mechanism for iron-

ing cuffs in a laundry, and needed t small model to accompany his appl

cation Jor a patent.

nished the drawings, and the father made the machine, which waa actually a press for printing false no tea, and •o small that It could be packed in an ordinary cigar-box. with,-apace to spare. With this apparatus -Bredell and Taylor ran off a few bills, provtding the paper In the same way aa for the *100 note first discovered. Taylor's brother Harry waa takaninto the secret, and the plan waa. aifffr a few of the counterfeits had bean circulated, to send one to the tiWauir tor ' Judgment on ita^ genuineness, it was then expected that the government, discovering so dangerous a counterfeit: at large, would be ready to make almost any terms with Its authors to have it suppressed. This scheme failed, how error, through an accident not necessary to describe here. Harry Taylor, who had undertaken the handling of the notes outside, and a poor creature named Hayes, whom he had employed as hla tool, were arrested within five-days of their beginning operations. This last defeat seemed to'break the spirit of the engravers, who again confessed their guilt, but charged their Junior counsel with; having advised their course; and on the strength of their representations Semple waa arrested, but after two trials he was discharged on a verdict of "not guilty." The trial of Newltt and Ingham resulted In their conviction, but an attempt to corrupt the jury was di*covered. and two more men. named Fairbanks and O’Dea, were arrested for file offence. In all. 18 persons have been brought to the bar of Justice in this remarkable case, and 12 con-

victed.

Between the counterfeit stamps, which Jacobs had already used co millions of cigars before bis capture, and the false silver certificates, the malefactors might today have been rolling In wealth, and government and public proportionately poorer, but for the miscarriage of the first $100 note. How came the defective seal on a piece of work otherwise so admirable 7 Poor human nature! The engraver* had been originally mere employes of Jacobs, who was to pay them *25 apiece, weekly, till the profits of the scheme reached a certain figure. The disproportion between their salaries and their ambitions stirred their imps tlenoe, till they decided one day to test the plates already made by printing a few notes and trying them on a bank. The right kind of canplne ink was too expansive for their purpose, and. aa this was a strictly secret side speculation, they could not borrow mny money of their richer partner. So they bought some inferior ink, which was bright enough while fresh, but soon faded.' The, suooasa’ of the mxperiment was I turned late and complete. and they pdfout note after note. Their greed, as we have seen, was their, undoing.—Harper’s Weekly. TTOv*tm Eat rroit. The time to eat fruit L at the end of a hearty dinner, at which a variety of food has already" been consumed. This appUas to raw fruit; cooked fruit may be eaten at any time, and

averted if tl

h Impaired by the sals of half-' •nd atoie fruit, wto* tajabcut tha (am. la gauarul. fruit is Mm wbototma wbee earn out «C to natan! - tot arid frato to tha amtog Jaat Move keaabtol. tektoff wto thaa a Mto bread tod totoe ■ tha ptoto frafc to aat i nifftoMi

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New fork City.—There are almost as many styles of Glbaon walsta In the new assortment of blouaea as the regulation shirt walsta. these broad-shoul-

dered effecu being very popular present They are worn by atout and slender women alike, but are far more becoming to the latter. Heavy wash fabrics are usually employed for their development In order to keep the pleats In shape across the shoulders. blouse Illustrated heavy green madras la used, the collar and cuffs being embroidered lu black silk. Two deep pleats extend from shoulder to belt back and front. They form a T in the back. The fronts close In double-breasted

puffs that are arranged eo narrow

bands.

The flounces are of circular shaping, but slightly full at the top. where they are gathered toil arranged ou the skirt A broad band^f blue finishes tbe up per edge, and dace Is applied ou the

hems.

They are narrow In front, and grad nate toward tbe back. prAddlng a smart sweep to tbe lower ed® of th*

ekirt.

Dresses ir. this mode are made of linen, pique, madras or cotton cheviot for summer wear. It Is also an appro priate mode for satin, foulard. India silk, crepe de chine, nun’s veiling or al-

batross.

To make the waist for a miss fourteen year* will require

quarter yards ol

rial, with one-half yard of contrasting material for puff and plastron.

!t«w Hat For Oalf.

The new hat for golf and outing Is a wide-brimmed Bajuta straw trimmed with a long striped scarf.

Oalacy Shirt Waist.

Thla dainty ibtrt waist Is made of pongee embroidered In pale blue spots. The black velvet collar is trimmed with a blue chiffon stock and crarat. The waist Is mounted on a glove fitted feather-boned lining that closet In the centre front. This may be omitted. Tbe back Is drawn smoothly across the shoulders and displays alight fulness at the waist arranged In tiny

pleats.

The fronts are gathered at tbe neck

forty-fonr-lnch mate

MISSES’ PBOMBXADE COSTUME.

style, the right aide featen log on the left with small cut Jet buttons. A plain embroidered collar completes the neck. It is trimmed with a lace protector. The bishop sleeves are shaped with aside seams only. They fit the upper rm closely -and are quite fhll at the lower edge The narrow waistband la

finished with a flaring cuff.

Waists In this mode are made of percale. madras, pique, linen or duck.. The style is also appropriate for taffeta, moire, French flannel or peau de crepe, i make the blouse In the medium will require two and one-<juarter.

yards of forty-Inch material.

White batiste, embroidered in marine

gathei

elbow, . IHPHH flaring, pointed cuffs embroidered lu

bine.

Waists In this style are a decided change from the severe tailor-made models and the abort sleeves give them an airy, summery appearance that 1* very acceptable at this aenaon of tfl?prear. Fine wash fabric* In white and pale shades of blue. pink, violet, yellow STud green arc used for wnlats In this mode. In some tbe collar, cuffs and box- pleat are embroidered, while

bine polka dots. Is used for this atti five costume, with blue satin and e

feather-booed lining that closes In the centre front The bastlste Is drawn smoothly across the shoulders in the back, and displays slight gathers at tbe

I with five wellfltted smoothly

around tbe waist aad over tha hips rlthout dart*. Tbe doting la made Intslble at the centre back under two averted pleat* that are flatly pressed, nd prerent a perfretly plain apprarTbe trout plastron of lace U permanently attached to the right lining, and deare InvWMy <m tbe left. It la com pleted with a piala collar. Thereto* reiUr la square to the buck aad linhihei the etore •< the ptontroa to temt. I la totoato wto a bread hand of Mae. srSSHaifH: — * ai tha Mt atoa aa-

and blouse prettily over the black velvet belt They close Invisibly under tbe .centre box pleat The plain collar

fastens at the back.

The sleeves are made in one piece, atbered at the shoulders nod at tbe

the reto^d the wa'at M ptoto^ fienasre act ore the treat aad oa the tap* of

NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS.

Latest Coadcnscd Special Dispatches

Front Manj Foists.

HAND OF DEATH HELD THE REINS. Cunbcrlis'f County Farmer Eiplres la His Bafgy—MaseaU* Bits Ma> Cast as Arm - Pastatikf Thisvss Mad* Hsul of StsapsKao a Pluhforfc la His Back - Mica has a

fit* Trail Compsoy.

A new trust, to be known as the S>» 1cm County Trust Company, was mcor porateil in the County Clerk’, office a: Salem. The authonied capital it $ioo. ooo. and all it paid in. The incorporat or» are: Charlet Hiret. cx-Congre,^-town; Robert S. Bunting. Jacob Houte Dr. W. H. Carpenter, josiah Summe. - ill. Pennsgrove; John M. Carpenter.

Walter W. Acton.

were struck by a pastenger train on the South Branch of the Central Railroad at a grade croising near Flemington Both men were hurled thirty-five feet and seriously injured. Their vehicle w-at wrecked, but the horse etcaped Brokaw received three broken ribt The men were driving to Cherryville » and did not discover the train approaching until they were upon the track. Uriah B. Watson, president of the Wrecked Middlesex County Bank, intends to leave Perth Amboy in hopeof retrieving his fortune. Mr. Watson owned one of the finest residences :n xs&zzg; -ytv «■ viK tine, the cashier, not only wrecked the institution, but it brought financial ruin Surveyors are at work on a tract o.' land in Plainfield, on which it is pasd a plant for the manufacture of iron work, such as is u>ed by railroad com panics. It is said that the Jersey Cm tral Railroad is interested in the entearise, the land being a part of their holding, along the line of tbe road About 8oo hands will be employed. Henry Shimp. a retired farmer, went to Canton to get his horse shod. H; started for home, went about a mile and fell over dead in his buggy. The horie was jogging along with its dead freigh' when a man parsing discovered the corpse, the hands of which held thr rein,. Mr. Shimp was 65 years old. Hugo von Loos was bitten by a mov quito and is now at McKinley Hospital Trenton, suffering from blood poison ing. The attending physicians fear tha; it will be necessary to amputate the ar. •

to save the victim’s life.

The American Can Company has a. cepted a ^proposition to erect a branch factory" on ten acres of land in Pau’.,boro. along Mantua creek. Work will be begun as soon as material can b; gotten together Employment will b.Tbe Tuckerton Board of Education has chosen the following teachers fo' the ensuing year: Julia Steelman, Mar caret Fox. Elira Stewart. Ada Sapi

... _lira Stewart. Ada Sapp, die -Spencer. Kate Brown. Maude Ireland and Gardctta Cranmcr. There

is one vacancy to be filled..

While playing in a hay mow on.hi* trticle's farm, near Mt. Holly. William Sharp. Jr., landed on a pitchfork. Th; handle penetrated his back nearly three incites, causing a dangerous wound. 'The Common Council of Clinton. Hunterdon county, ha, ordered that an appeal be taken from the decision of Vice Chancellor Pitney enjoining the action of the borough m compelling the

Clinton National Tiank to ral

molith 1 Sena

sent the appeal. The Patrons of Husbandry of Hun terdon county will hold their third an nual picnic on the Flemington Fair Grfeindi, August 6 and 7. Nothing but farming topics will be discussed, and politics will be absolutely uboocdT As the result of a competitive examination for entrance to West Point. Congressman Chas. N. Fowler has appointed two Plainfield young men. N. P. Rogers. Jr., as cadet, and FrederickT. Van Atikcn as first alternate.

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killed by strangling i low from the incidci

Several Woodbury glassblowers are camping at Somers’ Point. Thfc is the annual outing of the Woodbury Glass-

workers’ Outing Cub.

There is an effort to be made to revive interest in the Searille camp-meet-ing this year, and the Epworthians of lower New Jersey wii! trite Ok initia-

tive.

Work on the new stone road from Pedricktown to Bridgeport is progressing. but the contractor has difficult, with the causeway in getting a firm foandation. Hundreds of acres of strawberries have been set out in the lower part of Salem county. Growers did well this

The mother of little Mary Shelmire.

Mantua, who was accidentally angling from a rope, is very

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season, hence this venture.' Tomatoes arc retailing in the upper part of Gloucester county at 30 cents a quarter pf a peck, while in the lower part the price is So cents a basket. Pennsgrove vqtert will sonic the water question on August 15. when they aril decide on the *J5.tx» loan for a -

water plant.

Nearly aooo crates oi tomatoes are being shipped from Pedricktown daily now. besides those tent hr water. The well at Clarktboro which is sap pored 1 to contain typhoid garms. through which there has been conoidera hie illness. L being filled up The Y. M. C. A. ol Elmer now numbers >4 members. New cards have been