Ligonier Banner., Volume 47, Number 25, Ligonier, Noble County, 19 September 1912 — Page 3

PARALLEL o FAMOUS | CRIMES| _ By HENRY C. TERRY '

THE GREATESY GANG OF COUNo REREEVTERS, b | & HE days immedidtely - foli .Y lowing the Civil war were’ = -. the halcyen days of. the : ‘counterfeiter. The counT .o try was fairly. flooded Y- .- | with bogus bank and treasury notes. No man, when he Te: ceived a bill, could tell when he presented it at & bahk whether it would' be accepted or not. When the fanious - Forbes gang began to put their :output on the market the bank teller himself could mot tell whether he might not have in his-drawer another of the same seridl number; for that was the _only means by which a Forbes:coun#erfelt. could be detected. .~ - .. 1t 1s not likely that another gang similar to the Forbes crowd ever will arise in the United States. The coun: _terfeiters _of today are photoengravers; who hear the same rélation to. the high-class maker o‘f steel plates that. the coin molder does to the old-tima. “crook who cut his own steel dies. The silk threads, the secret process paper dnd the excellencé and activity of the ~United ‘States secret #tvice have. also. _served 'to render thé finer forms .of’ counterfeiting a Jlost art. Therefore it 1s Interesting to Teview the-rise and fall of the greatest of them all, the Forbem Eang .~ ..~ = . ‘1 knew Ned Ormsby, aone of the members, of the gang, well; a ‘quiet.. dignified little man, gray &bout theé: temples, and when he told me the following story the pallor of the.fed‘eral penitentiary was still upon him. =

-+ NED ORMSBY'S YARN. - . “The Forpes gang of counterfeiters,” sald Ned Ormsby, -‘was: without doubt the greatest gang in their speclalty ‘ever got together. The gang, as it was at first.mads’up, consisted of Ed Forbes, ‘Little, Jack’ Vaughn, Sam Stetson, Curley ;Peters ‘and myself. We were all in the same Georgla regiment, and enlisted in Atlanta, éxpecting to go through until tha end of the war, which if 'was considéred in the south would not be very far off: ' “We kept banging awa¥ wii};ﬂg#ni for a couple of years and got pretty sick of jt. The scraps we got jnm were not sucl jokes as we had imagined they would be. The Yankees, who, we had|thought, would: be soft marks for the southern gentlemen, turned out-to. be dandy fighters.” Befides, there was nmo money in war, as’ it was being carried on. Forbes told us oné day that he was: going to quit: This hit us all just right and we quit withhfim “1 did mot know that Forbes had eny purpose im giving ‘up war as-a profession until we got well clear of the lines. |We were not deserters, because we had all servéd for a longer time than our enlistment called for. We went on the bum for a few weeks, and then Forbes, gave out.the scheme that he had been studying over for a long time. This was nothing less than to flood the south with bogus counter:: feit Confederate notes. He- belleved that the 'south would be: syccéssful, and that we would not have|any.difficulty in rolling !n"mm—ions;o} dollars; The game Jooked like a cinch, and’we did get up_a stock of bills represent--ing -enough. money t 6 buy a small state, when the Copfederates ‘woh thefr final battle, but the cinch turned out tg be tainted.with foolishness; and we. were badly left in the end: & .

© “Our glorious scheme" was knocked to smithereens when Lee! siirrendered. The wholer gang went: horth with .afretty large-sized -"st-ock'.l‘of,'pr"dpe,r-\tj’,i which we dispesed of ‘a’t{' good prices: We came oiit pretty large wimmers, but’ it made us sick when 'we thought of what. it might have been. = ... /.- "“We reached New York in the course of our travels, and everything seemed to be booming. Everybody' ‘had money to burp, and we jumped in to:get Not‘iit,* Forbes put’up & job to get possession of several government printing plates, Thé .fob would have been successfiil 4f “Little Jack’ Vaughn, who was as clever.an artist in_his line as ever broke-stone for -the state. hadn’t got ‘drunk in ‘Washington and given enongh of ‘the. 'snap away to throw ‘us down. Forbes. was the maddest man you ever saw when he heard of Vaughn's. fool trick,. and he huntedl for ‘Little Jack’ for .a month. for the purpose of killing him.: Vaughn- kept out of ' the way - until Forbes. got- cooled off, and then he foimed the rest of the gang. ... “But Jou. could’ not keep Forbes down with & few little setbacks, and It did not take him long to get on the: move again. He hired & house in Flatbush, 1. L It was in the outskirts of the Vvillage, and we all went there to live. There bad to be sbme excuse: for a lot of men Ilving in 3 haquse; with a couple of negro servants, 80 we lad a sign palnted and hung out near the front gate, inscribed. ‘Fureka éClub?’ ~ln order to stop suspiclon we _invited several of the influential citizens to-dine with us, and we treats ed them like lords. They' would swear by us through thick and thin.We wera all the time -quietly -perfectg our |counterfeiting plant: - Curléy. Peters, Yho was a photographer, andBam Stetson, an eugraver, were kept. busp}"fat' work getting out the plates.” “They had some new trick that they were _experimenting on for - a = long while, and, after - a lot of :ranm;ea.», they found what they . were affer. Plates were made for the bills -of a fozen or more banks, and Forbes, ‘whci»wa«s a good judge, sald that they were “the finest plates ever used to stamp bogus money. Peters was: very reticent about the way the plates were made, and, as it was none of. our business, we didn't care. Taken at the very worst, Peters was only &

‘ THE CRIMINAL 'Tells -~ How He Planned the Deed and Sought to Close _Every Avenue-of Knowl--edge Leading to His Guilt. The "Détective ‘Shows How Futile These Efforts Were and . - How the Old Adage, Murder ‘Will Out, “Always Holds Good.”

e “‘(Copy'righ( by F. L. Nelson

-half-hearted crook. He-“came of & |v§£y godd .family in Georgia, - “When the plates were about done T went with Forbes and got three ‘presses; which;he had sent to a vacant, store in’ ﬁ-zihrlehi;; and removed them' purselves to the ranch in Flatbush so no-questions would be asked. ‘The only delay we met with was in getting paper similar to that used by ‘the.govérnment. I 't_ﬂfe%to make connection’with several Wg firms in Massachusetts, but they were all dead leary mbout golng into the scheme, ak ‘théugh we offered them big money. «.~#Forbes and ] finally took a trip to Fngland . and found a paper manufacturer who was.wiiling to make the paper. -He kunew what we were after without beéing told amd charged a price -for His: work that was highway robbery. - But' weé had to get the ‘godds at ‘any’ priee and-gladly paid him his figureés: -We got the paper through the c¢ustom- house ‘under a false invoice, with:-the aid of an inspector }"yvth'.’wa& nat_above taking money for ‘favors, ‘and ‘aAfter keeping it in a stor.age wareheuse. for ‘several weeks we gent it to Flatbiish.. The paper was ds.good as the genuine paper, and it did ‘not take ' us : long to start the. ‘presses. . “Stetson “was a .practical printer, and fixed the colored inks for the different plates. Then we all took a turn at the presses, and a -fellow ‘could<not help. having a thrill of delight as' the 'plles .of beautiful bills. ‘were stacked.up in the cellar. - “We kept the presses moving until ‘we ‘had .about $2,000,000 in money. ‘After-all ‘the bills -had been rejected that showed .any :defects, the good ‘ones were aged by a colored fluld. We were 'now. ready .for the real business to begin. A careful .comparison of the | pbunterfe'it‘s'wit'h a magnifying glass ‘did not show the-slightest difference from the genuine: So confident was Forbes of the money that we sent one of the bills to a bank to have its genuineness. tested. 'lt' canfe back all HERL o 2 0 ~“lnstead ef. trying to push the quger in -small.lots, as 1s commonly. done by shovers, we. divided the money into flve parts,.and the members of the gang took equal share and went respectively to New York, Boston; Philadelphia, Chicago, and,St. Louis. Then We put out the money in govern‘ment -and -railroad bonds ¢f the giltedged sort; -and got rid -of all the Juoney. ‘We made the-biggest life on. record, and’ sold the bonds in London inside of 'a month.”" . = . ‘

DETECTIVE. ARNOLD TELLS IT

~“Tt' is a .¥ery' difficult thing" said Operator - Alrnold; formerly. of the Unted States. secret service, “to gét get rid of a|large amount of counter: feit movey in this country without de-"‘ tection, becaifse of the safeguards which are thrown around the genuine notes. The plan -of protecting money has: received thegreatest _ attention from the treasuty officials, and marks and characters have been put upon the hills. which it' is.intended shall escape thé counterfeiter's notice. It ‘would ‘not be policy to .tell what any of these marks -are, but it will not be glving anytliing away to say that defects are put into bills sometjmes in order ‘to itestify to their genulneness. This: s done on the supposition that if a ‘counterfeiter goes to work on a bill and discovers what may seem to be a slight ,‘fdefe’gt,"hev_ will correct {t, and by ‘doing so” will furnish ‘evidende of his crooked work.: , -\ . 'T-was put to work upon a gang of ‘counterfgiters, .however, which beat the gogernment at its own game. The treasury ' fepartment . received mnotice of a counterfeit from Boston of a $lO9 bill on the First National bank of that city. .The Bill in" guestion | aroused suspicion because the serial number was duplicated.. There was nothing else’ ahout the. bill that would excite suspicion, *Tn ‘the: vignette of- Lincoln on- the*bank note .an intentional defect had been made in one of the lines in the foréhead and it-was reproduced in the ‘counterfeit, and a warning was. sent out calling attention to it.

- “Within two weeks we had plenfy of ‘work. on our Mands, for the banks, in, serptinizigg” bills ~after receiving notice,. discovered several other. coun‘terfeits of different banks. - Reports ‘came -to ‘Washington from New York, ‘Chicage, ~Philadelphia, Boston, St. Loujs and other places of the finding ‘of- countérfeits,’ It became veéry eviir_d'ent"f that the country had been flooded with :the bogus money by a very shrewd gang of counterfeiters, A ‘comparison of all the bogus bills indi‘cated that they had all been made by the same hand, for they were just as ‘good.as the genuine bills, with the ex“;fce.pl.i'q'nvof the duplicate serfal number -and letter.. .- T “The fact that the bogus,money had 'appea_red An_ different parts ~ of the _"cgqﬁtry at about the same time show‘ed’ that there had been concerted ac‘tion -in. getting 'rid of them in large ‘batches by the gang, but.this alone did not glve any clew ‘to the operatdrs or their headquarters. So far as ‘we Epew they.might have been locat‘ed’in any one,of five large citles. Seerét. gervice ‘operators were put to work in these citles with the intention of working bdck from the fime the money was pat out. el " “In ‘every eity where the thieves did business they bought bonds and securities: which could be disposed of anywhere, from ‘bankers and ‘brokers‘who were eXperts in detecting bogus money: In each city we got a good description > of ths man who bought the bonds, and it showed that it_was a different ‘man in each place. The debcnpt'lc%i were good so far as they wernt. Nathrally the government print: {ng ‘bureau -came under suspicion be cause of the quality of the work, and every man at work In that department wis. ‘examined with a searchlight.

"Well, we wasted a lat of time proving the Innocence of government employes, but the work turned out to be of some value, after all. . i | - “While I was working in Washing‘tlon I came across Richard, Osgood, 'an ex-secret service operator, and he .told me a yarn which came from his ‘mulatto servant girl. The gir], who k was- good looking and a bit of a flirt, {had formed the® acquaintance of a {white man whom she knew only by lthe name of ‘Little Jack’ He had be | comé confidential with her and had » dropped a. hint that he would soon own part of the govefrnment printing office. The girl the next day reported I.to Osgood what she had heard. ~ “Osgood, not being -very friemndly with the secret service people on ac-count-of his dismissal, thought over the matter for a day before reporting [the story. Wheén the secret service operators went to look for ‘Little Jack, "he had ‘flown the coop.’ 5 ¥ “This Information might mean much or -little.. Investigation showed .that this fellow, under another name, had been in the company of some of the government engravers.” While they admitted this they said that they did not know him, and that he had made ,no'dishpnest proposals to them. But who was ‘Little Jack? This query kept going through my mind day and night for several days, and. then the -name of ‘Little Jack’ Vaughn, the New. Orleans card sharp, flashed upon my | memory. He had been mixed up with several swindles in the south, and I sent to the chief of police in New Or~ leans to see if he could get me his picture. ‘lt might be only a waste of time,” I thought, but;‘ I could not tell. It never does to mids any chances in my business. In about a week I got a.picture from New Orleans of ‘Little Jack,” and the mulatto girl said it was the same fellow she had seen. - '

“The next step was more fmportant. The description of the man who had passed the. bogus money in Philadelphia referred to him as being under the average size. I took.the picture to the broker who had seen him, and he sald ‘Little Jack’ was the man, without doubt. Then ~we leirned from the south the names of some of the gang that ‘Little Jack* trained with, and. that he had been in the counterfeiting business during the war. But where were ‘Little Jack’ and his partners? A large reward was offered for the capture of the gang, and & description of some of the bonds which had been bought was sent to all the financial centers of this ‘country and .Europe, with a descrip tion of ‘Little Jack’! We got word from’ London that a man answering his description had disposed of a lot of -bonds in that city, and we communicated with Scotland Yard. . “We worked steadily on_ the ?‘aso here for weeks, and found out allot of/ information about the gang. j We were reasonably . certain i-'that! E 4 Forbes was at the head of it, but did |mot have the pesitive proof or- thg man. While' racking our brains to clear. up thé business, .a cablegram |'was received from Secotland Yard te .the effect that a man who answered the description of ‘Little Jack’ had taken passage -on the Cunard steamer ]Scotia, and was apparently alone. The Cunard pier was then in Jersey' City, and .1 was there when the steamer arrived with several other operators. I recognized ‘Little. Jack' in spite of his full beard and English make-up. I did not recognize any of the other ‘passengers as| crooks, but those whe looked the least bit crooked were followed by an operator to their hotel, and left under surveillance until their idenfity was cleared up. “I shadowed ‘Little Jack.” He had charge of some barrels of Wwine consigned . to J. M. Kearns, Flatbush, L. I. The gauger, in examining the wine, found that there was some foreign body in one of the barrels, and I had the barrel opened, with the consent of the collector. I found an hermetically sealed box ffa'st,ened to the bottom of the barrel. On opening it I discovered a dozen perfect counterfeit plates of bank, netes. The plates were returned to’the hox and the barrel was shipped to- Flatbush. I went with it, and found that Mr., Kearns lived at the ‘Eureka Club.’ When I delivered the wine, I saw ‘Little Jack’ and Ed Forbes in the house, and concluded that the gang had returned” to this country to begin operations again with a new set of blates.:: .. : ’ ¢ I raided the place in the evening and captured Ned/Ormsby, Ed Forbes, /Little Jack’ Vaughn, Sam Stetson and Curley Peters. All of them received long terms in the federal penitentiary.

WHY HOSTILITY TO GARDENS ,T4ere' Seems to Be an Antipathy Among Americans to Anything . That Shields the Porch. | Theré prevails among many of us an actual hostility toward gardens, up'on which I have miused not a little, One. would suppose that a people so ‘devoted to the cult of fresh air, so ‘given to piazzas- and “sleeping porches,” would be quick to afford themsselves so simple a luxury. e -1 cannot believe the'objection oft. .enest made to me: that mosquitoes prevent the enjoyment of a garden. True as it/is in part, it is true only’ for certain seasons and: for certain ‘hours of the day. Mosquitoes never yet kept any one who really wanted ‘a garden from having one. l Nelther do I put muchfaith in the ‘altrauisin of those who protest against walls because they prevent outsiders from enjo¥ing one’s own grounds. It ‘would be entirely possible to make g ‘defense of walls on the highest psy’ chological basis. Nay, what could be morse delig'hﬁfu] than to take an outs raged community by the hand and point out that a' glimpse of ' greem through an open gate, a vine hanging over a coplhg, a }(ee peering -above & hedge, suggests more to the inquirs ing mind than the most unobstructed view? But I suspect that the rea}* milk in that cocoanut is a fear lest the rocker on the piazza be cut eff from the spectacle of the street and of nelghboring rockers.—H. G, Dwight ¢n the Atlantic Monthly. ‘ - - Near Possession. 1 - “Has your family got a motor cag?™ “No, but_my brother, who knows a l chauffeur, has got the auto face”

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Testing Density of Lime-Sulphur in a ~Glass Cylinder by Means of the .. Hydrometer. Reading Shows a <" Density of Six Degrees Baume.. sprayings of the apple in localities where bitter rot and apple blotch prevail. Where these diseases are nof present dilute lime-sulphur is used throughout the season in place of Bordeaix. In a more concentrated form the lime-sulphur spray is used for. the control of San Jose .and other scale insects on fruit »trees.\ 1t is dlso prac-

| ~ Keeping Birds Graded. . Be sure to grade; your birds according to size as the weeks pass; When you find that some are qutstripping the others, take them-‘away and put them with the birds of thefr own size. If you have toe-marked the feet and have put on leg. bands, you will be able to tell the facts regarding them at any time. e ' Here is where the value of records comes in. Keep an accurdte record of every hatch, and then grade the birds without- having to feel that if you mix them up you will not be able to tell them again when you want to know certain things about them. S : it e : " Hen Cleans Hérself. : - Fowls cleanse themsel:ves of insects and dirt by dusting their feathers and then shaking off the dirt and the pests with the dust. Heaps of sifted ashes or very dry sand or earth for them to wallow ip must be placed in.the sun; and, it pdssible, have pome under shelter 8o af to be warm and perfectly gry. The dust-bath i 8 to the hen what the wash tub is to the individuaal.

~stu%t learys by experiments in thes labdratory that thé addition of either lime or organic matter modifies the crumb structure of soils. Further study teaches him when lime is needed and when organic matter is needed. The texture of a soil has an impertant bearing upon the crumb structure. Coarse gralned soils have practically no*¢rumb structure, while very fine graindfd.soﬂs have a. tendency to form m'as’s’f,s (clods) not easily penetrated by roots. Mechanical analysis shows the .relative amounts of large and fine particles in a given soil. This knowledge enables the student to explain the . resalts -obtajped . in many of his experiments. Given a statement of the mechanical constituents of a soil, the studént is enabled to judge the tilling 'qualities of that soil, as well as to make a fair estimate of its crop producing power.

tically a specific for peach leaf curl. The stock solution or concentrate can either be purchased in commercial form or made at home. Commercial lime-sulphur can now be pm@hased in almost every town in the state from i»either druggist or hardware dealer. 'This material should test from 32 to 33 degrees Baume. Home made limelsulphlltshould be boiled according to the Geneva formula to get the best results. This formula is as follows: . Eighty pounds high grade flowers lof sulphur. i . ~ Forty pounds stone lime (high ialcium lime should be used; magnesium lime is unsuitable). , Fifty gallons of water. Forty pounds :of stone lime are slaked in an iron kettle. Eighty ‘pounds of sulphur are placed in an old dash churn or a churn improvised from an arsenate of lead or pickle keg and thoroughly mixed with -a small amount of water. This. sulphur paste is- then mixed with the milk of lime in the kettle and enough water added to make 50 gallons. This mass is then actually boiled for 45 minutes. The heat will cause the lime and sulphur to go into definite chemical combinations which are soluble. The result is a clear brown solution, through which floats a very finely divided black studge. :This sludge can either be removed by allowing it to settle out or can be drawn off with the lime-sul-phur and applied to the trees. All through the boiling process the liquid should "be kept up to the 50 gallon mark so that the finished product will be 50 gallons of concentrated lime-sul-phur. Home-made material will test anywhere from 25 to 28 degrees Baume, depending on the. quality of the materials used and the care taken in manufaci;?e. By barreling tightly, home-made Waterial will keep just as well as commeTrcial lime-sulphur. Concentrated lime-sulphur is used both as a contact insecticide for scale control and as a fungicide, the only difference being 'in the rate of dilution. For scale confrol the material is diluted so that the. spray fluid will test 4.5 or 6 degrees Baume. For summer work the concentrate s so diluted that ‘,the spray fluid will test 1 degree.Baume. The rate of dilution is ascertained by means of the hydrometer. . This instrument is nothing more or less than a glass spindle §o lecaied at one end that .it floats upright when placed in liquids. It is graduated to two scales, the specific gravity scale and the Baume scale. When placed in pure water at 60 degrees Farenheit the hydrometer reads 0 degrees on both scales. When dropped into denser fluids the readings will vary with ;ho density of the liquids. Every fruit grower should possess one of these little instruments. : g Just as soon as a new barrel of concentrated lime-sulphur is- opened, whether it be comimercial or homeboiled, its specific gravity. should be determined. Thig ik "done by drawing out a cylinder flill of lime-sulphur, and dropping the hydometer into it. The scale is read at the surface of the liquid. ) g :

She also uses it for exercise. When a hen is incubating she comes off as regularly to dust herself as to feed, instinct teaching her that it is the best method for ridding herself of lice. Dust is cheap and should be used ‘plentifully, S ; : SR In Feeding Oats.: = - While it is best at all times to have good sharp grit constantly before the fowls, it is especially iinportan,:- that grit be supplied when feeding ‘whole oats so that the hulls of oats, which are very tough and unyielding, wili be properly ground. With plenty of sharp grit there is no danger attend ing oat feeding, although the safest rule ‘is te first soak the oats for an hour in water so that they may become, softened. el Lice-Among Chicks. - Lice, it they once get.a hold, -are very troublesome. They ir\icrease‘- very fast. and will do the chicks more harm than half their feed can mhke up. Dust them thoroughly once in 10 days with insect powder and keep the coops clean and disinfected. 2

ELECTRIC LIGHT IN DENMARK Every Town in That Country of Over . 5,000, Population Has 2 Public Service. - . According to recent, jinformiation about the progress of electric light and power industries in Denmark, it appears that all the towns of 5.000 inhabitants and over are now provided with public electric service, says the Scientific American. As to towns having between 5,000 and 3,000 inhabitants, “there are only three in. which electric mains are not installed, so that it will be seen that Denmark is one of -the most progresgive countries in this respect. The largest sized &lectric stations are to be found at Copenhagen - and at present there are three large plants in dperation giving a total of 27,000 horse power. Current is supplied for the city mains. as well as for. the tramway lines. As regards the Danish stations in small towns, in general each town has -its own plant, and there is but one ex* ample of an intercommunal ‘system. This is at Skovshoved, near Copenhagen, and the central station extends its power lines over all the suburban regions, also supplying the tramways of Hellerup and - Klampenburg. In most of the town electric stutions the Diesel heavy oil engine is used. .

ERUPTION LIKE PIMPLES Wathena, Kan.—“My child’s scalp trouble became so bad that I was ashgmed to have anyone see him. His ihea% had a.solid scab on it.. He also had a terrible breaking out cn his face which was gradually” growing worse. The eruption was like pimples which developed into sores when he scratched, which he did almast constantly. Baby would almost scratch himself raw. ‘ : “I~had used several different kinds of salve, none of them helping in the least bit, when I saw the Cuticura advertisement In the paper and it made me think of the good results my sister had when she used it for her children. I' had only used Cuflcura Soap and Ointment apout two weeks before I noticed that the sores were almost entirely gone, and it must have been a month or six weeks he was troubled before ‘I began the treatment. He would get easy when I would put the Cuticura Ointment onh him. Cuticura Soap and Ointment completely cured him and he has a clear complexion now.” . (Signed) Mrs." W. H. Hughes, Déc. 81, 1911. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. 9kin Book. Address post-card. “Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.” , . Best Books for Children. Eugene Figld, asked for the best ten books for young people under sixteen years of age, is said to have given this list: “Pilgrim’s Progress,” “Robinson (Crusoe,” Andersen's Fairy Tales, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, “Scottish Chiefs,” “Black Beauty,” *“The Arabian Nights,” “Swiss Family Robiagon,” “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” “Tom Brown’s School DayBg,” for boys, or for girls, “Little Women.” ‘ His Weapon. | “Did you see where an es(feaf)ing maniac somewhere struck down his pursutr with a cake of soap?” ' "~ "Then I suppose he made a clean getaway.” ' o

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