Chapter XX: Tampered, Erased and Manipulated Paper

Sure Rules for the Detection of Forged and Fraudulent Writing of Any Kind--European Professor Gives Rules for Detecting Fraud--How to Tell Alterations Made on Checks, Drafts, and Business Paper--An Infallible System Discovered--Results Always Satisfactory--Can Be Used by Anyone--Vapor of Iodine a Valuable Agent--Paper That Has Been Wet or Moistened--Colors That Tampered Paper Assumes--Tracing Written Characters with Water--Making Writing Legible--How to Tell Paper That Has Been Erased or Rubbed--What a Light Will Disclose--Erasing with Bread Crumbs--Hard to Detect--How to Discover Traces of Manipulation--Erased Surface Made Legible--Treating Partially Erased Paper--Detecting Nature of Substance Used for Erasing--Use of Bread Crumbs Colors Papers--Tracing Writing with a Glass Rod--Tracing Writing Under Paper--Writing With Glass Tubes Instead of Pens--What Physical Examination Reveals--Erasing Substance of Paper--Reproducing Pencil Writing in a Letter Press--Kind of Paper to Use in Making Experiments--Detecting Fraud in Old Papers--The Rubbing and Writing Method

CHAPTER XXI

FORGERY AS A PROFESSION

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