FORGED “FIVERS ”

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1921, Page 3

FORGED “FIVERS ”

LONDON, March 24. The art of forgery is advancing on the Continent, a bank cashier told a Daily Mail reporter on Saturday. “Fur some days past we have had £5-notes coming through the bank which can best be described as works of art. Their accuracy is almost inconceivable.” Mr Justice Coleridge at a recent trial found it necessary in a forgery case to blue-pencil the counterfeit note. He said; “1 have been comparing the note with a genuine one, but having regard to the elaborate way in which it lias been forged I thought I had better tick the forgery with blue pencil.” A clerk at the Rank of England said uliat the experienced man usually relies on the test of “feel” and “sound.” He runs the note between bis lingers, and by the rustle he can almost invariably tell a forgery.

BOMB EXPLOSION. i NEW YORK, March 24 j Ten persons were killed and a large | number seriously injured by the plo-1 sion of a bomb in Chicago early to-day. j The outrage occurred in the cmu ter | of the city known as "Bloody Nineteenth Ward,” which has lately been ( the scene of many fights between political factions. ' Several people were injured recently when the hall in which a candidate for the City Council was making an election speech was partly wrecked by a mnmmaamm i i— l i