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The Final Detail of a Master Counterfeiter Case
A long True Detective style tale details how counterfeiter William Brockway built a scheme, a printer’s choice misstep, and a web of Secret Service efforts led by A. L. Drummond and agents. Faced with jurisdiction limits the case moves to New York police, with a child’s signal helping to corner Brockway at the St James and a Lexington Avenue hotel. Fifty seven counterfeit Central Pacific bonds are found, and Brockway faces five years in prison.
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William Brockway
Chance
A. L. Drummond
United States Secret Service
Drummond
Greenwich Street
William F. Brockway
Treasury Department
Drameeed
Washington
Brockway
Treasury
Dingly
New York
Drugsamond
Secret Service
Twenty-eighth and
Sixth Avenue
St. James
Twenty-sixth and
Broadway
Lexing Tore Avenue
Wen
Lewis Martin
Nathan Foster
Brookes
United States
Byrnes
Wall Street
Central Pacific Railroad
Lexington Avenue
Martin
St. James’ Hotel
Central Pacific