AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 245, 17 October 1888, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

DISCOVERY OF A GANG OF

FORGERS IN SYDNEY,

The Sydney police have been aware for some time past thab forgeries of an extensive 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 resemblance to bhat of the customer in whose name the 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 presenb a forged cheque at the bank ab which the hr.t 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. Cubibt to a cheque for £47, and übtering the same to the Australian Joint Stock Banking Company. The case was remanded.