Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1882 — PILFERED PLATES. [ARTICLE]

PILFERED PLATES.

Hiunori nt Washington Touching the Doyle - Brockway if Forgeries. Washington dispatches state that “there have been rumors of a tremendous sensation in connection with the Doylc-Brockway bonds. It is alleged that experts pronounce the plates to be unquestionably genuine, and that a vast quantity of bonds have been printed from them and others and put in circulation. It is explained that the gentlemen who had charge of the melting of circulation plates were deceived, and the plates. claimed to be melted were stolen or taken away and bonds issued from them. It is chimed, furthermore, that this stealing process was of doubtful authenticity, and that the officers who superintended the supposed destruction of the plates were very easily deceived, and that something else was put into the furnace and the valuable engravings were snatched from the burning for the use of Brockway and Company. ‘•lt is understood from high authority that Mr. Folger has found five plates missing from the list in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and that one of them represents the silvercertificate issue. Mr. Folger has tried to find out how much of the counterfeit-bond issue was put off by the Brockway-Doyle combination before he closes up the affair. From the evidence already in the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury, it is clear that a large portion of the currency of the country has been duplicated by the counterfeiters, but to what extent it has entered into general circulation is absolutely unknown. It is probable that Brockway will be released during the week, and when he is the Government will be obliged to make certain explanations. If Brockway, Doyle and Smythe are released, it will only be after certain arrests are made of more important people, to justify the Government in its suspension of sentence over the heads of the most notorious and successful criminals.”