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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 191, 8 July 1873, Page 7

There have been some very neat methods ! of swindling exhibited in Melbourne by the 1 various defaulters in banks, merchants’offices, I and public institutions, who have been dis--1 covered and punished for their roguery. It ■ was left to a Ballarat practitioner to furnish ! an improvement upon metropolitan modes of 1 embezzlement. A man named Archibald Turner Kerr, a native of Lisbon, has levanted ; from Ballarat, after robbmg his employer, I Mr Fry, the miller, of £SOO. Kerr’s modus \operandi was to go round to Mr Fry’s cus- ! turners, collect the money due by them, forge j acceptances for the amount of their accounts, land hand these acceptances into Air Fry inI stead of the cash he had received. It is 1 thought that Kerr has left the Colony, but I Air Fry has made up his mind to spare no I expense to obtain the defaulter’s arrest.