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360 once more, and was sent to Trenton prison for three years ; but was pardoned out after eighteen months' imprisonment. Site had a son, born on the ocean, when she came over from Germany, who was at this time about twenty years old. He lived with James Colbert, a noted counterfeiter, and Mary came from the Trenton penitentiary to join Colbert as his mistress. Then she went to reside with Cha's. Ulrich, (a splendid German engraver) at Brooklyn, N. Y.

Ulrich having been arrested for printing bogus money, was sentenced to eight years in the Penitentiary at Crow Hill; but he broke jail after one year's service, and Mary Brown joined Aim, when they went to Cincinnati, O. This Ulrich got out the beautiful $100 counterfeit plate on the Central National Bank of New York city. The words "MAINTAIN IT" were engraved " mainain it," and the note was thus found to be bogus — though it was very nicely executed, otherwise. He was printing these notes out two miles from Cincinnati, at " Spring Grove." Mary Brown and Kate Gross were there, selling and shoving notes for him. The boy (Mary's son) was there, also. In 1866, Kate Gross went to Philadelphia again, and received this money from Ulrich at Cincinnati, in bulk, at 1004 South 16th St., in the Quaker city.

Detectives, under Col. Whitley's direction, were now em- ployed to shadow Ulrich — not then knowing where he was. These Detectives got an old coney man, Billy Gordon, to drop on Kate and "give her away." They provided Gordon with marked money to buy the bogus of Kate, and she Expressed this good money, addressed to "Cha's. Hen- derson, Cincinnati, care of Gustavo Schiller ; " the latter another known counterfeiter, connected with Ulrich. The two Detectives followed this shipment of money, by Express, from Philadelphia to Schiller's house, where Ulrich received