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A NEW ZEALANDER FORGER. PASSPORT GANG’S ACTIVITIES. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 23. Nicholas Granville Vincent, a New Zealander, waf> sentenced to 21 months’ imprisonment. The police said he was led away by a man named Janowitz, who is well§known internationally as an adventurer dealing in passports. The police regarded Vincent as the forger of the gang. A message from London on October 10, said: — An unemployed New Zealander, Lloyd Nicholas Granville Vincent, was charged, with five others, with conspiring fraudulently to obtain a passport for an alien. Siegbert Posener. ) They were also separately charged, with Fiwell Willner, with a. similar offence/ in connection with an alien, •Richard Neumann. Vincent admitted helping his accomplices to forge passports manufactured by them. Winner’s job was allegedly to find a purchaser, convey the order to the producers and distribute the money .received. Neumann’s name was rendered as Newman, for which reason he said the passport was useless. The prices allegedly varied from £7O for a single, passport to £350 for a. double one.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 38, 24 November 1939, Page 6
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