WHOLESALE FORGERIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 14 September 1925, Page 5

WHOLESALE FORGERIES.

WIDESPREAD PLOT DISCOVERED

MASTER MIND ELUDES ARREST;

f y CABLE— ASSOCIATION—COPY EKiU'l LONDON, Sept. 11.' The Budapest correspondent of the Daily Chronicle reports the sensational arrest of thirty persons accused' of, being implicated in wholesale forgery and counterfeiting. Those arrested include a Jewish Rabbi known as the ‘‘Miracle Rabbi” on "account of His special powers of healing. . . The police are endeavouring to locate the master mind of-'the-'scheme, who is, known to be one of the most skilful and dangerous, counterfeiters in Europe; Certain information led the police "to 1 believe that thousands of missing notes were secreted in a Jewish cemetery. A superficial ’ examination proving fruitless, they dug up • a whole.' graveyard and searched the coffins. v ' \ The Jewish community was shocked and held a special service. They expressed grief in the Jewish manner by' rending their garments. ' A large and devoted following declared that the Rabbi was the victim of circumstances and many influential people are willing to go to prison as hostages. V Huge forgeries of English, American and Continental notes, postage stamps and passports have been traced to the same source, but the master f ‘crook” has evaded arrest for four years.