How Professional Forgers Work—­Valuable Points for Bankers and Business
Men—­Personnel of a Professional Forgery Gang—­The Scratcher,
Layer-down, Presenter and Middleman—­How Banks Are Defrauded by
Raised and Forged Paper—­Detailed Method of the Work—­Dividing the
Spoils—­Action in Case of Arrest—­Employing Attorneys—­What “Fall”
Money Is—­Fixing a Jury—­Politicians with a Pull—­Protecting
Criminals—­Full Description of How Checks and Drafts Are
Altered—­Alterations, Erasures and Chemicals—­Raising Any Paper—­Alert
Cashiers and Tellers—­Different Methods of Protection

CHAPTER XXII

A FAMOUS FORGERY

The Morey-Garfield Letter—­Attempt to Defeat Mr. Garfield for the
Presidency—­A Clumsy Forgery—­Both Letters Reproduced—­Evidences of
Forgery Pointed Out—­The Work of an Illiterate Man—­Crude Imitations
Apparent—­Undoubtedly the Greatest Forgery of the Age—­General
Garfield’s Quick Disclaimer Kills Effect of the Forgery—­The Letters
Compared and Evidences of Forgery Made Complete

CHAPTER XXIII

A WARNING TO BANKS AND BUSINESS HOUSES

Information for Those Who Handle Commercial and Legal Documents—­Peculiarity of Handwriting—­Methods Employed in Forgery—­Means Employed for Erasing Writing—­Care to Be Used in Writing—­Specimens of Originals and Alterations—­Means of Discovering and Demonstrating Forgery—­Disputed Signatures—­Free Hand or Composite Signatures—­Important Facts for the Banking and Business Public—­How to Use the Microscope and Photography to Detect Forgery—­Applying Chemical Tests—­How to Handle Documents and Papers to Be Preserved—­The Value of Expert Testimony—­Using Chemical, Mechanical and Clerical Preventatives

CHAPTER XXIV

HOW FORGERS ALTER BANK NOTES

Bankers Easily Deceived—­How Ten One Hundred Dollar Bills Are Made out of Nine—­How to Detect Altered Bank Notes—­Making a Ten-Dollar Bill out of a Five—­A Ten Raised to Fifty—­How Two-Dollar Bills are Raised to a Higher Denomination—­Bogus Money in Commercial Colleges—­Action of the United States Treasury Department—­Engraving a Greenback—­How They Are Printed—­Making a Vignette—­Beyond the Reach of Rascals—­How Bank Notes Are Printed, Signed and Issued by the Government—­Safeguards to Foil Forgers, Counterfeiters and Alterers of Bank Notes—­Devices to Raise Genuine Bank Notes—­Split Notes—­Altering Silver Certificates

APPENDIX

This follows with many pages of Illustrations and Descriptions of Various Kinds of Genuine, Traced, Forged and Simulated Writings and Autograph Signatures of Bankers, Statesmen, Jurists, Authors, Writers and the Leading Public Characters of the World; Individual Autographs of Every President of the United States; Freak Signatures and Curious and Complicated Writing; and Scores of Other Interesting and Instructive Autographs and Writings of Various Kinds That Will Prove of Great Worth and Value