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lore me readers of the Hkhald. The following isthe textBlJFTAM). S. Y.. Oct. 12. 1974.Three year* ago I wits arrested, being concerned In counter!* ititig. 1 wih promised my liberty l! I would give up the material* hui never again take up the business. This J did, hut by no cue misunderstanding I was pl aced in jail, from whence I hod, and have been working and earning us honest a living as 1 could. I could not stay long in one place. I was compelled to leave, or was driven from duUretit places, among which was Washington, I. c. There I whs employed at the Smithsonian by J. Mchnight Es«i.» corner Pennsylvania avenue and Fifteenth street; also at Ueorge Wall, coachinaker. No. IM*-V k Street-Washington, under the name of inomas (’lark. I left Washington in April, 1874. Having an improvement both in engraving and paper making that 1 have long wished to bring before the proper authorities at Washington, in hope that some honorable means might be found whereby 1 might he returned to my family, to protect them imm vice and poverty, has induced me to state tne following tacts:—TIIK IMPIIOVBMKNTS CONSIST —First—Of a new method whereby the letters on theface of a no e can be made in such a manner that they cannot b« imitated, and it wili not tntericro with the pri st ut style of engraving.Stcoiul— l hat the red and blue fibre used by the government can be. or the ju;e can be colored bv any person ofordinary means. I can show the government a certain way that the jute can be colored, or rather made, and plated gold and silver, so that none but the chemist can no able to compete nr produce it.Tkirtl— I have under way and part done a method whereby in the numbers of a note the lop half can be printed In red and the bottom in blue.All these combined, I claim, will stop counterfeiting.thereby ko ping our prison tree irom that class otpeople, and protecting others from fraud. Yours re-spectiuily, THOMAS HALLAKl).It can scarcely be doubted that If the anticipations of the enthusiastic iorger as to the importance of his discovery prove correct, tlio autnorl-ties will iiururailv reduce the punishment Imposed, U not set him iree altogether.
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New York Herald
New York, New York, US
Fri, Oct 16, 1874
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