A MASTER FORGER.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18347, 2 April 1925, Page 9

A MASTER FORGER.

REST FROM ACTIVITIES. (BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPrRIQHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, March 31. The Common Sergeant, in sentencing Owen Jennings, aged 26, to three years' penal servitude for forgery, declared that 1 tho case allowed a regular traffic in letters stolen from inailba&s and letter-boxes. From these cheques were taken for forgery in a factory. The "Daily Express" says that Jennings is known to the underworld as "three-finger Jack." Ho is probably the most skilful forger alive. For years the police hare known of the existence of a forger working on a large scale, but Jennings was elusive and uncannily clever, and oacaped arrest. His outfit was cunningly arranged so that it could be quickly packed up in an attache case. It contained hundreds of different pens and inks, and acids for eliminating cheque-crossings.

Jennings's work always passed the keenest bank scrutiny. It is believed that he irresponsible for 90 per cent, of the forgeries in Great Britain in recent years.

Jennings was always cheery and companionable, and immaculately dressed. He won the Military Medal and bar "in the war.