SEARCH FOR FORGER.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 10

SEARCH FOR FORGER.

PERSISTENT U.S. POLICE. REWARD OF 1000 DOLLARS. AUCKLANDERS GIVE INFORMATION. AMOUNT PAYABLE "ON DELIVERY." The Statute of Limitations operates only in civil law. When a criminal offence has been committed there is no time limit, and there have been cases where wrongdoers have been arrested and sentenced after almost a life-time of freedom. Persistence in sending out descriptions and photographs is a feature of the United States Polico Department. The men controlling criminal investigation in that country believe that the receipt by police officers and others month after month, of photographs of men wanted impresses the recipients with the fea-

tures of those it is desired to apprehend, and there have been numerous instances on record in,-the States which show that this method has been responsible for numerous arrests. As stated in the "Star" yesterday the Texas sheriff (Mr. John Bigham), who apprehended John Grey in Helensville and charged him with being A. B. Crouch, of Temple, Texas, has circularised private inquiry agents and the police in New Zealand for the last year or two at regular monthly intervals. The circulars not only gave an accurate description of Crouch, but also advised that a reward of 1000 dollars would be paid to the person giving information leading to the arrest of the forger. It was information of certain persons in Auckland, not connected with the police, that led to the arrival in Auckland of the Texas sheriff, and if the man arrested proves to be Crouch and is extradited to America the 1000 dollars will be paid out by the sheriff to the givers of the information when, according to that -officer "he is delivered to me on the steamer which will take him backto the States."