Passed Raised Ten Dollars

PASSED RAISED TEN DOLLARS

Dollar and Two Dollar Bills Made Into Tens

TWO WERE PASSED

One of Fox's Art Store and the other at Schoenfield's Second Hand Store

Two bills raised to ten dollars were passed in this city Friday. The first was passed on a lady clerk in Fox's art store on State street Friday afternoon, who was asked by a stranger to break a ten-dollar bill. The stranger got two five-dollar bills. The "ten" he gave was a very clumsily raised one-dollar bill. The corners which were decorated with the figure 1 were erased and a cipher drawn after the one in the body of the bill. The "one dollar" inscriptions on the back of the bill were carefully erased and in the center was drawn in green ink the words "Ten Dollars."

At about 7 o'clock in the evening a stranger of the same build but differently dressed called at St. Clair's second hand store for some tools he had had laid aside a day or two before and tendered a ten dollar bill in payment. Miss St. Clair pronounced it a bad one and the stranger said he knew where he got it. He went from there over to the second hand store of Morris Schoenfield, on Detroit street, where he bought a three-dollar suit of clothes and received seven dollars in change. M. J. Martin, who was in the store at the time, took the bill up to the bank, where, it was pronounced a two-dollar bill raised to ten. While this bill was clumsy enough, yet it was a better piece of work than the first one.

The stranger could not be found, although diligent search was made for him last night. He had been in town for several days, as he had attempted to pass a raised ten-dollar bill at Goetz's store on Wednesday last.