Confiding Detectives.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 238, 21 January 1888, Page 2

Confiding Detectives.

WiTijregard to forgers, we learn that their numWr, compared with other classes of crimimls, is small, only about two dozen men ting recognised as applying , their talent] as pennxeifc And engravers TO^P fabricibion of-spurffloß documents. w>p°v fraphj^a^g^^^l^^^^^.^^il %sed fft' lbeiridbjtiflpatmn|«s Their methods ■ "So nofdffieVf fr@Q sthosjff which ;nave[ been "detailldS^oCbften i|i optr, own . Courts.- of" ;o'uBti©,^io"'thaf J w t & "need not dwell upon themj We may, however, refer to the cleve manner in which one gang of forgers made the English criminal investigation depai iment pjftjuinto jtheit . hands— This> "ffang md prepared an elaborate scheme for d&h'a diiig the English banks by means of coifnttrfeit circular notes. Shortly after •they 3ftrJfew < Tdrkrby steamer" e/i route, for Britan, th,e scheme was discovered, and the Englihf police was furnished by Atlantic v cablefwith all its details. The forgers were of colrse ignorant* of this. Tlio audacious leader,- ,upon arriving in London, thought bhatUt -would b,e. as well to mako himself acqisvinted with, the faaes of the chief detect ives, and in the cbWactor of an American tourist he paid them a visit. They were so taken off their guard by the pleasant manner of their visitor that one of the officers not only told him of the impending fraud,, but actually sho\ved him the New York telegram, which happened to be lying on a desk. - It need hardly be said that the forger, thus warned, did not tarry long in the metropolis ; he and his gang left London that night.-—?' Chambers's Journal."