CLEVER FORGERIES
BUT NOT CLEVER ENOUGH. TWO ACCUSED SENTENCED. London, Feb. 16. For the cleverest note forgeries of recent years, Arthur Southgate was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude and Fred Green to ten years’ at the Manchester Assizes. It was stated that 1065 forged Treasury notes were actually traced to the accused, who must haie manufactured several thousands. A diary kept by one of the prisoners showed that they worked in over 50 towns distributing notes, which an expert stated were the best forgeries he had seen in his 33 years’ experience. The police stated that many of the notes actually passed through the Bank of England. Mr. Justice Wright confessed that he could not himself distinguish between the forged and genuine notes. —(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 57, 18 February 1927, Page 9
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127CLEVER FORGERIES Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 57, 18 February 1927, Page 9
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