INGENIOUS BANK FRAUD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2072, 6 May 1907, Page 4

INGENIOUS BANK FRAUD.

The arrest in Winnipeg of a man named Henry Douglas Anderson, of Manchester, has revived interest in a sensational ease which was first mentioned some six months ago. Anderson was formerly an assistant in tho Manchester branch of rije Bank of England, and early last August took leave ol absence on the ground of indisposition. A few days later tho officials were alarmed by a complaint that the bags of gold sent from the Bank of England to another bank,.wore not of tho stated value. A careful examination of tho bags, which were supposed to contain a thousand pounds worth of gold, revealed a number of copper coins. Attention was then turned to the bags of gold in the strongroom of the Bank qf England, and here again halfpennies were found mixed up with the sovereigns and half-sovereigns. All those receptacles, it is said, had passed through the hands of Anderson, and his initials appeared on the outside.

Tho gold was supposed to be made up into packages containing £250. These were weighed and, it is stated, put temporarily on one side. From many of these packages sovereigns, making up tho total sum missed were, it is alleged, abstracted, and the weight made up by the substitution of half-pennies, which had been selected so as to turn tlie balance at the correct figure. When the robbery was discovered tlu police were communicated with, and tho stipendiary magistrate granted a warrant for tlio arrest of Anderson, the amount of the stolon money being given as £lOBl. A Manchester police officer is leaving for Winnipeg to bring Anderson back for ti iul.