CASE FOLDER FOR

FALSIFICATION OF
DOCUMENTS

Submitted to: PROF. KERWIN PAUL GONZALES

Case: #2

Submitted by:
Bonza, John Everson A.
Alemania, Jonnel
Serrano, Clyde Axl
Montillano, Mike Daryl
Canceran, Marcial Jr.
Cabillan, Reymart
 Republic Of The Philippines
NATIONAL POLICE STATION
PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE CAPITAL REGION POLICE OFFICER
SAMPALOC MANILA POLICE DISTRICT
SAMPALOC MANILA POLICE STATION
CONTACT NO. 632-253-6808 Email: Sampalocmanilapolice@gmail.com

MEMORANDOM

FOR : District Director

FROM : Chief of Police

SUBJECT : Spot Report Re: Falsification Of Document

DATE : January 20, 1903

1. What: Falsification of Document

2. When: Date of Incident – January 20, 1903
3. Where: Sampaloc Manila
4. Who: Victim – United States
Suspect – Alonso P. Gardner
James Jameson, Win F. Kilp
Witness - Chimaman an Fun resident of XO 32 Calle Nueva, Malate/Chinese Tailor
Responding Officer – Policeman Jerome Patterson, George W. Marshal assigned at Sampaloc
Manila Police District
5. How: Based at the Statement of Witness
6. Investigator - On case : Policeman Jerome Patterson and George W. Marshal
7. Progress Report to follow

JEROME PATTERSON
Policeman
 Republic of the Philippine
NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSION
PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE CAPITAL REGION POLICE OFFICE
SAMPALOK MANILA POLICE DISTRICT
SAMPALOC MANILA POLICE STATION
Contact no. 632253 6808 / 632334 2851
Email address: sampalokmanilapolice@gmail.com

MEMORANDOM:

FOR: DISTRICT DIRECTOR

FROM: CHIEF OF POLICE

SUBJECT: INVESTIGATION REPORT: in Falsification of Document

DATE: January 20, 1903

I. AUTHORITY:

a. Affidavit of the Investigator dated: January 16, 1903

b. Referral to city Prosecutor of Sampaloc Manila dated: January 1903

c. Complaint Affidavit dated: January 16, 1903

d. Spot report: Falsification of Document dated: January 16, 1903

II. MATTERS INVESTIGATED:

1. To determine facts and circumstances surrounding the victim of Jameson

2. To identify the suspect and determine the appropriate cases to be charged against him.

III. FACTS OF THE CASE:

1. From the testimony taken at the trial, it appears that on January 16,1903, while the accused, Gardner
and James Jameson, were in the "Soldiers' Institute" situated in Santa Cruz, this city, Gardner ordered
Jameson to go to a bookstore in front of the post-office to buy a bottle of mucilage and a blue pencil,
and for that purpose gave him half a dollar. This was about half past 3 in the afternoon. Jameson got the
mucilage and the pencil, Gardner not having told him for what he wanted them. As a witness Jameson
identified one of the blue pencils which was shown him at the trial. Jameson's testimony is corroborated
by 8. A. Presby, the owner of the Manila Stationery Company, who identified the witness Jameson, as
also the pencil and a bottle of mucilage, which were exhibited to him as those which he had sold to
Jameson between 1 o'clock and 2.30 that afternoon. Between 6 and 7 o'clock that night the witness
Jameson, at the invitation of the accused, went by tram car to the Malate barracks, where they found a
soldier, tamed William, with whom the accused had some conversation. They then left the barracks, and
while passing by a tailor shop Gardner handed Jameson a bill asking him to change it for silver and
promised to give him half its value. Jameson drew Gardner's attention to the fact that the bill was not
good, to which Gardner replied that he knew that, and that he had made it with mucilage, saying to
Jameson, "Go along, get it changed, and I will give you half." Jameson cashed the bill and received 25
pesos for it and then went up to the Soldiers' Institute, where he found Gardner.

2. This witness described the bill which was so exchanged by him, together with the alteration which
had been made in it, and identified the bill which was exhibited to him at the trial as the one which he
had given to the Chinese tailor, numbered 54226499, and testified that this bill had been given him by
the defendant Gardner, in whose possession he had also seen some Confederate bills. The silver
certificate identified by this witness appears on page 91 of the record.

Jameson also testified that when he delivered to Gardner the money obtained by changing the note the
latter gave him $7 or $8, and that Gardner at that time had another bill on which he had pasted a
number "10" very similar to the bill which he had given the witness, and that this bill remained in
Gardner's possession; that afterwards the witness Jameson and defendant Gardner went together to
the town of Calamba, where the witness saw that Gardner had nine Confederate f 10 bills which he tried
to pass in a Filipino drug store; at the time he tried to pass these bills there were three persons
unknown to the witness in the store, one of them an American and the other two Filipinos. The
Chinaman Ah Fun, resident of Xo. 32 Calle Nueva, Malate, testified that he had given 25 pesos in
exchange for an American bill upon which the number 10 had been pasted; that he did not observe this
defect in the bill at first, as it was dark, but observed it very shortly afterwards and immediately went to
the police station to complain. This witness identified the bill numbered 54226499 as the one which had
been delivered to him by James Jameson, and testified that the latter told him it was a ten-dollar bill.

IV. DISCUSSION:

1. The defendant raised a $1 United States silver certificate by pasting a piece of paper with the figure
"10" over the figure "1" on the certificate, and passed it as of the value of $10. Held, that the defendant
is guilty under article 289 of the Penal Code, of the crime of falsifying a document payable to bearer . . .
the issue of which has been authorized by law.

2. ID.; ID.; SILVER CERTIFICATE; MONEY. — A United States silver certificate having no intrinsic value, is
not money, but is a document of credit payable to bearer.

3. ID.; ID.; ID.; ID. — The act of attempting to raise a $1 United States silver certificate to the
denomination of $10 by pasting upon it the figure "10" constitute the crime of counterfeiting money,
not that of falsifying documents of credit. Silver Treasury notes of the United States are money, not
"documents of credit."
V.CONCLUSSION:

Based on the foregoing there exists a strong probable cause to believe that a crime of Falsification was
committed the suspect.

VI. RECOMMENDATION:

WHEREFORE, Premises considered the undersigned recommends the referral of the case of Falsification
of documents in Relation to R.A 10951 committed by the suspect of Alonso P. Gardner, James, Jamosa,
Win F. Kilp.

Prepared by: Concurred by:

Investigator - George W. Marshal Policeman - Jerome Patterson

Republic of The Philippines

NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSION
PHILIPPINES NATIONAL POLICE, NATIONAL CAPITAL
 REGION POLICE OFFICER
SAMPALOC MANILA POLICE DISTRICT
SAMPALOC MANILA POLICE STATION
Contact no. 1632253- 6808 + 632354- 2057
Email Add : SampalokManilaPolice@gmail.com

MEMORANDUM

FOR. : District Director

FROM : Chief of Police

SUBJECT : Progress report re: Falsification of Documents

DATE : JANUARY 20, 1903

1. Reference:
A. After Operation Report Dated January 19 1903
B. Spot Report Date January 16, 1903 with the United States VS Alonso P. Gardner.
C. Police Blotter with Entry No.
2. This Pertains to the Case The united State VS Alonso P. Gardner , Sampaloc Manila , January
16 , 1903 where the Victim the Identified as JAMESON While the Suspect identified as
ALONSO P. GARDNER.
3. On January 16, 1903 at about Operation was conducted by personnel of Sampaloc Manila
Police Station, Equipped with body worm Camera where suspect was arrested At Sampaloc
Manila upon Arrest Suspect Tried to Arrest was conducted following the police operational
Procedure. He was apprised of his Constitutional Rights as Provided for by the Miranda
Doctrine in Filipino language known Understand and Spoken By Him.
4. On January 20, 1903 the case was referred at the office of the City Investigator George W.
Marshal Sampaloc Manila Docketed as NPS Docket Number 4545 – 0202
5. The Arrested suspect is Temporary Detained at this Station Subject for Further Proceedings.
6. Final Report to Follow.

JEROME PATTERSON
Policeman

Republic of the Philippines

NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSION
 PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE CAPITAL REGION POLICE OFFICER
SAMPALOC MANILA POLICE DISTRICT
SAMPALOC MANILA POLICE STATION
Contact No: +632 253 4808 / +632 354 2851
Email Address Sampaloc Manila Police@gmail.com

MEMORANDUM

To: District Director SPD

From: Chief Of Police

Subject: Final report Falsification Of Documents

Date: January 19, 1903

REFERENCE:

A. Investigation report dated January 20, 1903

B. Progress Report Falsification Of Document dated January 20, 1903
C. Affidavit of investigator dated January 20, 1903
D. Referral to the prosecutor of Sampaloc Manila City dated January 26, 1903
E. Complaint/ Witness Affidavit dated January 20, 1903

2.On February 20, 1903, the prosecuting attorney of the city of Manila filed an information in the
Court of First Instance of that city charging the three defendants with the crime of the falsification of
notes or documents equivalent to current money payable to bearer, in that on or about the 16 th day
of January, 1903, the said defendants, Gardner, Jameson, and Kilp, in the city of Manila, Philippine
Islands, willfully, feloniously, ands with intent to gain, forged two notes or documents which passed
as current money under the laws of these islands, with the intent of circulating them, and forged
and attempted to make an imitation of two United States silver certificates of the value of $10 each,
money of the United States, altering and changing the numbers, seals, letters, and inscriptions on
two $1 United States silver certificates which pass a current money in the Philippine Islands, in order
that they might appear on the face as of the value of $10 each; this contrary to the statute in the
case made and provided.

3.From the testimony taken at the trial, it appears that on January 16, 1903, while the accused,
Gardner and James Jameson, were in the “Soldiers Institute” situated in Santa Cruz, this city,
Gardner ordered Jameson to go to a bookstore in front of the post-office to buy a bottle of mucilage
and a blue pencil, and for that purpose gave him half a dollar. This was about half past 3 in the
afternoon. Jameson got the mucilage and the pencil, Gardner not having told him for what he
wanted them. As a witness Jameson identified one of the blue pencils which was shown him at the
trial. Jameson’s testimony is corroborated by S. A. Presby, the owner of the Manila Stationary
Company, who identified the witness Jameson, as also the pencil and a bottle of mucilage, which
were exhibited to him as those which he had sold to Jameson between 1 o’clock and 2:30 that
afternoon. Between 6 and 7 o’clock that night the witness Jameson, at the invitation of the accused,
went by tram car to the Malate barracks, where they found a soldier, named William, with whom
the accused had some conversation. They then left the barracks, and while passing by a tailor shop
Gardner handed Jameson a bill asking him to change it for silver and promised to give him half its
value. Jameson drew Gardner’s attention to the fact that the bill was not good, to which Gardner
replied that he knew that, and that he had made It with mucilage, saying to Jameson, “Go along, get
it changed, and I will give you half.” Jameson cashed the bill and received 25 pesos for it and the
went up to the Soldiers’ Institute, where he found Gardner. This witness described the bill which
was so exchanged by him, together with the alteration which had been made in it, and identified the
bill which was exhibited to him at the trial as the one which had given to the Chinese tailor,
numbered 54226499, and testified that this bill had been given him by the defendant Gardner, in
whose possession he had also seen some Confederate bills. The silver certificate identified by this
witness appears on page 91 of the record.

4. On the same date, accused Alonso P. Gardner. James Jamison, Win F. Kilp was committed.

5. At Sampaloc Manila City by virtue of commitment order No. 202296. Accused was received by
policeman Jerome Patterson

6. For Reference

JEROME PATTERSON
Policeman