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Great Staten Island Conspiracy cracked by Secret Service
The article recounts a Civil War era counterfeiting plot involving bogus internal revenue stamps for cigars and other items. Col Whitley and Operative Applegate led a sting from New York to Staten Island, nabbed John Breme and James Walker, seized $4,000 in stamps, and uncovered a network run by Col Robert Clark with over fifty thousand bogus stamps and plates, leading to multiple arrests and the destruction of dies.
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United States
Whitley
United States Secret Service
New York
Maryland
West
W. W. Applegate
Walker
Oldbach
Washington
Broadway
Mr. Oldbach
Napoleon III
Applegate
Secret Service Division
New England
Boston
Secret Service
Internal Revenue
John Breme
Breme
James Walker
Jack Robinson
Volney Wright
Wright
Phil Hardgrave
Hardgrave
Amity and
Mercer Streets
Chief Whitley
Staten Island
Robert Clark
Colonel Clark
Hast Thirteenth Street
Col
Ter Alu
Clark
Mr. Applegate
New York Regiment of Volunteers