Strange Discovery of Forged Bank-Notes.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 83, 11 March 1885, Page 4

Strange Discovery of Forged Bank-Notes.

I ! .A.', singular ; discovery, £Jr='£oi:gc<J: ■ ißank of England note's is reported ,• jit is stated;tlxa$ { ,#., .wpman,, i . t ac,c.q,m-.' jpanied by a tradesman m Leadenjhall,l\fav^et,,went.'jto ,tjhe ijanjf of •England a^tV t^nclerecl' a .«^ojO'6' 1 note to be changed. Tne'note to.allj apjpearanc,e<was .genuine, ( anci '.. it ? was 'only by the discover . tljat there jwere no notes of -that paticular numfber issued for.' that amount^, that, the ■ forgery 'was detected. i The ;woinan,^ : w : hoVas 'the wife 'of a shopkejßper m> \ White'chapel,' on' beiug' 'qtiestidnedy I sdid/she had received the'riote from' 1 I a ftljehd in,' ; the'' cduniiryi, 1 ; and' ' the , police recoverefl 'frbixi hei" husband' three or ' .four ' sfrailar "' .n'dtesi aiitl' ' several '^lOa'ndt^s'::' i|e f toitl ; |them^ that helliad, received, the noies' from' a. man ( in tne, ,., employment of ; Metrpppii^an, Works; '..i'He! officeA'g;-ascert i^n,ed.. j that,. jthe . nian's' ' story was correct, and that, the,,. pe,^^ son who had given .-him the notes was ( if; in^n> i employed- oil ; iClapham jCJpmmwi „:by . tjie , Metropolitan Board of "VVbrliS to keep th'e pattfe clean. The man" admitted the truth of the! statenftejnii,: adding, that. fre. and two of his companions discovered at the end of November? rqr conin^e^icp, ■tmentjoffjDeceniber last.-a box linger : a .furze-bush. , ; .They, opened .the^px, .and to their amajzement /pun^ .it to;be packed .withißan.k.'of England ... nq'feg 'to theJamourit v vario.ugly stated, .of from.lj6ooo.ttf L7OOO. -The Wf* were all for L -500 or LIOO, and bore various dales' ''aiidMi umbers. The ■men,* tbru.use.. ithejr i.owiifi. w j oa'dsj > imagined i,^ .their fortunes ...made," ■arid thafe"-"<it :.i-wojuld ' he.i quite > i,uifc necessary for them to go ,to <> work ' agairif ' ) 'JTlicVS ; ;'declded :/ to ;i :di vide equally their find* 1 but had-'heskated ' to'a^empt'td' fiut the notes'iE(;circullation, being apprehensive 'thai the Tightfttl ewneJ^ might, appeaiv . The police succeeded m obtaining posses'smf^f jfll 3 th^noifes, wKichj^i^ Asserted, ar,e theniost perfect ijiiiitation of genuine notes that have yet come into -the '.hands , of the bank.authori■tie's.;.- if .;. •;.-. •:.!•.■//;■ ... ■; ; i;, jf J I].-. I