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LONDON , September 26.
Scotland Yard is looking for an American. who appears to be offering fofged travellers’ \cheq)ues on .a weLl-kuayn tourist and travel agency. f : Travellers’ cheques are issued by the company in question for the - convenience of thpir clients, and are accepted by banks and tradespeople .without comment.
The man yesterday went into a Wests End antique shop, purchased some miniatures, and presented a traveller’s cheque for £lO. He was .given a few pounds change and took the miniatures away.
It was later discovered that the cheque was a forgery. Subsequent inquiries showed that similar forged cheques had been offered in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany.
The cheques were evidently the work of a most skilful forger, for one of them was recently accepted at the agency’s headquarters abroad, and it was not, until it readied England that its spurious character was detected.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1933, Page 6
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152CONFIDENCE MAN Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1933, Page 6
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