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

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 310, 24 October 1888, Page 3

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

Titii Sydney police have been aware for sonio Lime past fchab forgeries of an cxtenfcivo character were being pcrpetiated, and that great trouble and much actual loss had thereby been occasioned to several banking institutions in the city. Tho 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. Tho handwriting would bear a general resemblance to that of the customer in whose name the request was made, and the signature wojjjd 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 foi-ged cheque at the bank at which tho first application had been made, and in several instances the cheques have been honored. On Tuesday afternoon Detectives Cocking and Roche aiTestod two men in connection with tho forgeries The prisoners, whose names are Walter and Alfred Grieve, wero 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 Join b' Stock Banking Company. Tho caso was remanded.

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