The Bank of England Forgeries.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 224, 24 February 1874, Page 3

The Bank of England Forgeries.

The case of the Bank forgers, it appears, ia not to end with the trial and conviction at the Old Bailey. One of the condemned persons, George Macdonnell, has placed in the hands of the Bank solicitors a statement of his alleged dealings in America with two members of the New York detective force, named Farley and Irving. He asserts that they met him when he landed in order to arrest him ; that they said they had succeeded, after great difficulty, in having the arrest entrusted to them, and promised to do their best to help him, on condition of his handing over to them the proceeds of his London forgeries. Macdonnell declares that he gave them a large quantity of bonds and jewellery, on the understanding that part of it should be used in the meantime in preparing his defence, and the rest returned to him afterwards. He now makes this confession in order to exhibit them in their proper light. He alleges that his intercourse with them has been of long standing, and refers to letters which passed between them last September. If a charge like this, which, coming from such a quarter, must of course be viewed with suspicion, can be supported, the demoralisation of the New York police must be worse than anything we have yet seen in the London force. Irving and Detective Farley have accordingly been arraigned before the Police Commissioners of New York, with what result we have not yet been informed. The Bank of England is certainly to be congratulated on the thoroughly successful measures.it has taken for the punishment of all persons contained in the notorious American forgeries.