Mystery Forger's Den
SCOTLAND YARD DEFIED FOR A YEAR Somewhere in the back streets of Islington, London, is a tiny room*in a working-class house fitted up as a modern forger’s » workshop, which Scotland Yard officers have sought in vain for twelve months. It is the source of thousands of faise cheques passed in London and the Home Counties.
The mystery man who works in that room is one of the cleverest penmen in the country. He will not make falsenotes, but confines his attention to cheques.
On two occasions this year member! of his gang have been brought to justice, but they refuse to divulge his identity or whereabouts.
Reference was made to this mystery man at the Old Bailey when sentence was postponed until on James Boon, a twenty-year-old labourer, of White’ Lion street, Islington. Boon was found guilty of uttering a forged cheque for £6O with- intent to liefraud and endeavnnrinor tn nhtnin
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 311, 17 December 1936, Page 3 (Supplement)
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155Mystery Forger's Den Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 311, 17 December 1936, Page 3 (Supplement)
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