SOME FAMOUS SWINDLES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 138, 10 June 1905, Page 14

SOME FAMOUS SWINDLES.

. I O The Vinnk of Rn?:la.iiil lins horn rpp'ntcrlir I nti..irlcorl liy rinfors. In 1700 ;ho Tr.ry riot- ' er«. after sacklne and bnrnin« soreral <-!i.i- : ]if]% in thp ni>lshhnnrb(i<Hl. brpiti to ptnnn ■ ' Hip jratP of ih« li;jnk. and if wonhj hsv,- ■ . farod i\l -.virii thf "OM T.aflj-" if th<- Qiiorii i 3 li.'id uor prnmprly sent her Guard*. ho--Fe j rnn font, to Uio reßcuc. In 17S0. aftrr ,i I f.antlical mnb hr.rl Wwgatp and ! -, left br-uinrl it a trail of (r,iholir j chappie a:iri tfillow chandlers' shops, it ' : " marched, thousands strong, on rhp bank, i Its reception was a hot o\i<>. for the roof | nf the buiirtinsr swarmed with clerks and j • volKnTeerp. who had actually moulded mil- j + lets from thoir uicHcil inbstamts. wliiic a J t ] ring of soldiers fenced the building. The a , rioters m.-ido two furious onslaughts, but. n they were received with such v murderous f. hnil or builds that they turned tail and fled. j But where raiders and rimer* failed to ; rlo the "Old Lady" injury many a clever : forger bar. succeeded. "Old Patch." ]..-,- U1 tev office kppjwr.r. robhtod b.. r of no 1.-ss ?,' than £200.000 by .-i long series of forgeries. ! in which ho ink nnd pappr, i "' pnjrraved the platp, and printed the notes '' " Mngrle-handea. Ho was caught at last and jf, obliging!? hanged himself in eaol. Kauntlero.r. a banker, was stJll more sm- I ressful. for he porkefpd £360.0(10 by m sys- ' .1 fern of forcing powers ot attorney to se.'l ■ • to<-k which v.-jis not his. irp whs liansred ': n at Xewgalo. bin it is said wnx clever' n jnongli lo say,. his lift- by intertills H silver l ) 0 iubf in liii< throat, eseapins later to Paris ' w to the enjoyment «.f his ill-gotten gains. \ f c . lohn MiUiilson. ;t Hover amateur ea?»rarer. •' <t ■nd tlic must dnrliss fofger i>r ihem all. ' w ;.iri!i{c-d Bank of Kuplaud notes by the hun- 1r tired, forging the watermnrk so skil/uijy is aln:ost to defy detection, and senttore'd ''" his counterfeits prcdisaUy Tram one end of ■ vv England to the other. Tie was cleverly \hi caught at last by oue of the bank's clerks, ■ bnt even then, it is said, Ik> would have! d( ascaped convictien had he not confessed' pi bis gnilt in a spirit of bravada artnally rolunteering to show the authorities how fa he hud so soccessrnJly nrodneed the water- j i P; msrV. Joe