An Impudent Forger
The height of impudence wnt reached by. a. forger the other day in Sydney** according to a local paper. After imitating the signature of a respectable citizen on a cheque for a few pound-* he was walking about in some perplexity as to how he cuid tret the -.ocument cashed without excitinjr euppi ion, wh»*n he met the fe very m:in whose bank account he was *r fling wirh, and invited him to have * Irink. Entering Bryant's bar, the lwmdlfT called for drinks, and invited the landlord also to join; and while bis friena's nose was lust in thf pewter, and his head thrown back at that he could see nothing but thf ceiling^the.cool one, deftly tenderer the qwqiie in payment. The -np posed, -'d'awer thereof '. being w*»H , know«.ito;tbe landlord a* a goo % .mark BoDiiace cashed the document at once without question dr^reitfark. •': thiukinf tkatj'-yfth© man himself was there,'n< doubrjculd : possibly exist as thi Mnuifei*«« lot, the cheque.: A daj ir he tried i at the bank be found his bnt.bi«^iod was gone.
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 25, 1 March 1884, Page 3
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176An Impudent Forger Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 25, 1 March 1884, Page 3
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