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A MILLION IN BOGUS NOTES THAT AMOUNT SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN MADE FROM PLATES OF DEFUNCT BANK-SEVERAL ARRESTS. San Francisco, Aug. 20.-Secret Service agents have arrested three men here on the charge of rassing notes printed from the stolen plates of the defunct State Bank of New-Brunswick, N. J. The suspected men are Frank J. Perry, William Hogan and E. W. Smith. The last named has been for eight years chief clerk of the Life Saving Service in this city. Perry, who has been under arrest a week, gave information on which taken. was that the It discovered Hogan and only Smith recently were bank's plates were that amount possibly $1,000,000 will still not in existence, cover the and of bogus notes put in circulation since the institution went out of business. No trace of the plates has yet been secured. Washington, Aug. 20.-The arrest of Perry Hogan and Smith, at San Francisco, on the charge of passing notes printed from the original plates of the State Bank of New-Brunswick, N. J., which went out of business several years prior to the Civil War, disclosed the fact that their source of at N. J. NewNew-Brunswick_ supply The was officials Jacob at Weigel, were and was arin the rested York and informed, $17,300 to-day notes Weigel were obtained, together with several copper plates of different denominations. New-Brunswick, N. J., Aug. 20 (Special).-Two attachés of the New-York department of the Secret a set of the searching United States for Service plates were of here the to-day banknotes of the old State Bank of this city. Their was that a set of the to and that, if would information be found here, found, plates they was lead to the discovery of the source of the notes passed in Canada, California and other places as United States currency. The plates were found without difficulty. They were in the possession of Adam Ludwir, a junk dealer, in Richmond-st., but he accounted for their history and possession satisfactorily. The plates were originally the property of the late Colonel John W. Newell, receiver of the State Bank, and were kept by him as souvenirs, together with a large number of the notes of the old bank. After nis death a few years ago the plates and notes were purchased, with other junk, by Ludwig. He disposed of most of the notes to local historians and collectors, but retained the plates as curiosities. He made no secret of owning them, and never opened the original sealed wrappers in which they were inclosed when the bank's receiver took possession of them. Ludwig was at first unwilling to give up the plates, and the officers had no right to seize them, as they were not counterfelts of United States money and it was no infraction of the Federal law to have them in possession. The Secret Service officers purchased the plates from Ludwig, representing to him that their appearance so closely resembled those from which United States notes are printed that it would be better to destroy them. Notes of this old bank have recently appeared in circulation in several parts of the United States, and arrests, it is reported. have been made at San Francisco and Montreal.
