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Updated: June 5, 2025
Adams, are you going to give this news to the world at large to the United States authorities are you going to brand Margaret's father as a counterfeiter, or a passer of queer money? If you do that, even if you clear Margaret, you'll break her heart." "I am going to do nothing at present but keep on investigating. We have not yet reached the end of this string by any means.
"Gentlemen, you have here a master counterfeiter, surely a master counterfeiter of features and fingers as well as of currency." "Interesting story, this fight between the Five-Borough and the Inter-River Transit," I remarked to Kennedy as I sketched out the draft of an expose of high finance for the Sunday Star. "Then that will interest you, also," said he, throwing a letter down on my desk.
Probably I am also said to be a counterfeiter?" "I am not jesting, Herr Count. While Colonel Barthelmy was my guest I was able to prevent him from taking any aggressive steps toward you; this is why you did not hear from him again after his last call on you " "I certainly am greatly indebted to you," interrupted Count Vavel, with visible irony. "You owe me no thanks, Herr Count.
And no sooner would the issues of any particular bank grow very popular in the neighborhood of Bunkerville than merchants began to carefully examine every note bearing the name of said bank, lest haply some counterfeiter had endeavored to assist in supplying the demand.
The argument founded on this occasional good would be as applicable in justifying the counterfeiter and giving circulation to his base coin, on the ground that a spurious dollar had often relieved a poor man's necessities.
Every banker must, therefore, be on his guard, and should acquaint himself with the most approved means of detecting and avoiding the most common swindlers. This is just as necessary as it is to lock his books and cash in his safe before going home. Next to the counterfeiter, the forger is the most dangerous criminal in business life.
And yet Savary, himself minister of the police, executor of most important services, head manager of the murder of the Duc d'Enghien and of the ambuscade at Bayonne, counterfeiter of Austrian bank-notes for the campaign of 1809 and of Russian banknotes for that of 1812, Savary ends in getting weary; he is charged with too many dirty jobs; however hardened his conscience it has a tender spot; he discovers at last that he has scruples.
He was able to abstract the paper from the office, and a counterfeiter in the community forged the formula and signatures. His appearance he had gradually changed by allowing his hair and beard to grow, and he had studied the tone of thought and peculiar phraseology of the born Siberian, that he might the better pass for a native.
Larubio had been a counterfeiter in Sicily it was in the government prison that he had learned his cobbler's trade; and out of the fullness of his heart he had talked so the detective swore concerning these foolish Americans who sought to stay the hand of La Mafia. Nor had he been the only one to commit himself.
Finally, a former dealer in lottery-tickets, himself a counterfeiter by his own admission, and a jail-bird.
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