Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1878 — Ingenious Counterfeiting. [ARTICLE]

Ingenious Counterfeiting.

An ingenious case of counterfeiting coin was recently discovered at Ho: - hungabad, in India. Natives, when testing mohurs, or other gold coin, generally take them to a jeweler to have a hole drilled half way through them, for the purpose of seeing that they are of genuine metal. The coiner, a jeweler by trade, manufactured silver imitations of gold mohurs, and, having drilled two or three holes half way through them, to make it appear that they had been as often tested, thickly gilded them over. By these means he, for some time, imposed even on members of his own craft, till one, more wily than the others, proceeded to test some of the counterfeit coins for himself. Ogontz, the former residence of Jay Cooke, a few miles from Philadelphia, has had no occupants for four years. The house is of stone, very spacious, and the grounds are beautiful. The man in charge opens the windows once a week to give the interior an airing ; but all the furniture has peen removed. Signs of neglect are numerous. Cooke lives quietly in Philadelphia.