AUSTRALIAN NEWS. DISCOVERY OF A GANG OF FORGERS IN SYDNEY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 309, 20 October 1888, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. DISCOVERY OF A GANG OF FORGERS IN SYDNEY.

The Sydney police have been awave for some time past that forgeries o± an exten&ive character were being perpetrated , and that great trouble and much actual loss had thereby been occasioned to several banking institutions in the city. The method adopted was ingenious in its simplicity. It appears that one individual would obtain cheques upon a bank by means of a memorandum purporting to come from a customer of the bank. The handwriting would bear a general resemblanco to that of the customer in whose name tbe request was made, and the signature would be almost a facsimile. After the applicant had obtained the blank cheques desired, in the interval of a few days another individual would present a forged cheque at the bank at which the first application had been made, and in several instances the cheques have been honored. On Tuesday afternoon Detectives Cocking and Roche arrested two men in connection with the forgeries. The prisoners, whose names are Walter and Alfred ■ Grieve, were brought up at the Central ' Police Court and charged with forging the signature of A. Cubitt to a cheque for £47, and uttering the same to the Australian Joint Stock Banking Company. The case was remanded. ,' ,

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