CONVICT’S FORGERY
Remarkable Operations
Unearthed
(Received July|'3l, 9.20 p.m.)
LONDON, July 31.
Police unearthed an astounding forgery of pound"notes by convicts in Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight.
A convict emqiloyed in a studio where incoming prisoners were photographed stole a bins, plates and sensitized paper with which he forged notes in the prison workshop and smuggled them out with tijte assistance of a prison employee, who was not a convict. Several nfotes were passed in local shops. A search of the cells revealed bundles of notes.
The “Daily M.iail” says that as a result of the forgeries several warders have been suspended and convicts confined to the punishment cells. Two Home Office officials flew by plane to the prison and; opened an inquiry.
All the notes! hitherto found are incomplete, but completed ones may exist.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 260, 1 August 1939, Page 9
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135CONVICT’S FORGERY Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 260, 1 August 1939, Page 9
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