Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — A New Counterfeit Bill. [ARTICLE]

A New Counterfeit Bill.

Major Thomas B. Carter, treasury agent for Indiana, received yesterday from the department at Washington an accurate description of a new counterfeit ten-dollar bill which has recently made its appearance. It is said that the general appearance of the note is calculated to deceive, although it displays a number of glaring errors in the spelling of words and in the punctuation. The portrait of Webster in one’ corner of the bill is described as flat and unnatural in appearance, the shade lines being about the same depth over the entire face, which makes the white opot on the forehead too prominent. The small vine running from the right side of the counter and immediately under the wort “the,” upper left corner, does not appear in the counterfeit. In the “penalty” on the back of the note the commas between the words “note” and “or” and the words “it” and “or” are omitted, as is the period after the words “debt” and the bracket after the $5,000. The first word “this” is spelled “tnjs,” and the word plate is spelled “plae.”—[lndianapolis Journal.