PRISON FORGERY
OF BANKNOTES. (United Press Association—-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.). LONDON, August 21. An Isle of Wight message states that Horace Stone, a convict in the Parkhurst. Prison, was committed for trial on a charge of forging banknotes. It was stated in evidence that the prison authorities found photographic material in Stone’s cell, also negatives and prints of ten shilling and pound notes. Frederick Caplin, a warder, was fined £5 for conveying photographic material into the gaol. It was stated he kept Stone supplied with hypo paper.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1939, Page 5
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