FORGED NOTE SCANDAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 February 1926, Page 5

FORGED NOTE SCANDAL.

WANTED MAN SURRENDERS. HIS STATEMENT TO THE POLICE. BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Feb 18. The Hungarian note forgeries are again in prominence owing to the surrender in Berlin of Arthur Schultze, lithographer, for whom Germany’s cleverest detectives have been searching for two months. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says Schultze calmly walked into the police station and said: “I believe you want me.” In a statement he said he was asked by Prince Windischgraetz in September, 1923, to go to Bucharest, where he should work for the latter. Schultze went and was employed in the State printing works. He himself took photo, graphs of French thousand frant notes. He believed lie was engaged in a legal or political action, as the chief of police (Nadossy) apparently supported what was being done. After four months, Schultze says, lie began to doubt the honesty of the work which was being carried on. Moreover, there did not seem to be enough money to keep the works going properly. He therefore sought permission to" return to Germany, which was refused. Finally he managed to escape across the frontier.

Such is Schultze’s story, which Berlin is communicating to Bucharest, where the belief is officially held that Schultze is deeply involved in the plot.