The idea of catching a live counterfeiter appeals to me.
Perhaps he's sulking because he was not invited to the counterfeiter hunt!
Tell me how you made your escape," said Dyke Darrel, who sat with his back against a tree, and regarded the young counterfeiter in wonder.
Dyke Darrel more than half suspected that the young counterfeiter knew something of the late crime on the midnight express, and during the ride to St. Louis he did all that he could to worm a confession from the prisoner.
The counterfeiter made a desperate resistance, swearing that he would die sooner than be taken; but the detectives were too many for him.
Overton, the counterfeiter of twenty-five cent stamps, who was arrested some time ago, pleaded guilty on Friday last.
In France I had been assured that you had been imprisoned as an incendiary and counterfeiter and that you had served your term in Silesia at hard labor.
The ex-counterfeiter had caught sight of Dick as the latter was raising the hatch to drop it in place.
He followed the ex-counterfeiter across the deck and down the companionway.
When he came to his senses the ex-counterfeiter raved wildly and demanded that he be set free.
While among them I studied the badness, the power, the brutality and the arrogance of the counterfeiter and the assassin.
From the description given me of the Italian who made his get-away I recognized him as a counterfeiter already registered in the files of the Secret Service as Number Six.
He had lost a badly-wanted counterfeiter a fortnight ago that way.
He was creeping toward the open door of the shack, evidently bent on taking the slick partner of the counterfeiter chief by surprise.
Gentlemen, you have here a master counterfeiter, surely - a master counterfeiter of features and fingers as well as of currency.
He was a counterfeiter sought by two governments with the net closing about him.
The counterfeiter increases the volume of currency; he stimulates business, and the money issued by him will not be hoarded and taken from the channels of trade.
If the prosperity of a country depends upon the volume of its currency, and if anything is money that people can be made to think is money, then the successful counterfeiter is a public benefactor.
Paul was in exactly the same condition about the other prisoners, and the counterfeiter too.
Because a counterfeiter of such skill--and this engraving is the work of a master--implies long and intense application; therefore a secluded life rather than one of following the red flag.
Sorely wounded, the counterfeiter turned and bringing his gun down, emptied it point blank at his hated foe.
The counterfeiter lapsed into a moody silence and further questions by the Marshal brought no response from him.
The Marshal turned to the counterfeiter with a grim smile.
But it is not always upon the beginner that the counterfeiteror the dealer in fraudulent stamps tries his hand.
The counterfeiter often tried his hand at imitating the rare stamps, and in this, even among collectors who claimed to a certain knowledge of what is good and what is bad in stamps, he met with some success.
But it seems that some sheets of the water-marked paper on which were printed the stamps of Tuscany were obtained in some way or other from the post-office, and on these the counterfeiter printed forgeries of the rare Tuscan stamps.
The counterfeiter has stepped in here, obtained the genuine stamps before alteration, and then printed upon them a forged inscription either of place or value.
So famous a counterfeiter as Brockway realized this.
Hanging on the walls and in racks in the two rooms that are occupied by the chief and his two assistants are the photographs of every known counterfeiter in the country.
The names of the heads of the various districts and the operators are unknown and are seldom published unless in case of the arrest of a counterfeiter and the the facts get into the newspapers.
Therefore the counterfeiter is obliged to give up to the author or to his attorney (or the editor) [any profits from the transaction].
Given that he is a counterfeiter because he invades the province of another, who is authorized by the author himself to publish the work: the question is, whether the author can confer the same permission on yet another, and consent thereto.
The second point of the minor is: that the counterfeiter undertakes the author's business, not only without any permission from the owner, but even contrary to the owner's will.
Now the counterfeiteris he who transacts another's business (the author's) against the other's will.
He looked up at the windows as he walked; finally he stopped where he could look fairly at the small window of the cell where the counterfeiter was.
How would he have been a counterfeiterand murderer otherwise?
The duty of the jury was thus rendered easy, the murder was acknowledged, the antecedents of the prisoner were very bad, and the counterfeiter and murderer was as good as convicted at this stage of the proceedings.
The sergeant hailed him and asked what news of the counterfeiter there was from the Legate's court.
It was a bad world, he reflected, and the counterfeiter might have a clever hunchback for a servant, with a knack of fixing his eyes as Cucurullo did, and of putting great earnestness into his tone.
Could any one but an expert counterfeiter have in his possession three hundred and ninety-one ducats without a single false one, in these dishonest days?
The counterfeiter Bartolo is duly committed for trial and will be sent to Rome in chains with the next convoy of prisoners,' said the Legate, dictating.
The man called "Vight" is not altogether an imaginary character, for a desperate and successful counterfeiter dwelt for a time among the mountains on the Hudson, plying his nefarious trade.
In 1750 a counterfeiter of that time was sentenced to death.
