ENGLISH SWINDLERS ABROAD.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 67, 9 August 1878, Page 2

ENGLISH SWINDLERS ABROAD.

A Geneva correspondent writes undor date April 22:— <'A fortnight sinco a wolNdrossiul and very respectable-look" ing person, who spoko French with a marked English accont, was arrested at Moyrin, a railway station oloso to tlio French frontier, on a charge of passing fraudulent ohoquos on a defunct Liverpool bunk, brought back, to tho scono of his depredations and lodged in tho prism of St Antoinc, Last weok thoro arrived nt Geneva another Englishman, •of ploasing address and distinguished np* ponrauoe, who introduced hinnolflo tho city authorities as a London dotcoiivo charged wUh a most important inquiry, concerning wliioh ho had reason to boliovo tho prisonor in quostion ooujd givo him usoful information. His ivquost to bo pormittod to boo tho latter in his cell was courtoously gnntod, and ho saw him accordingly, Tho noxfc morning tho prisoner nnd one of tho turnkeys woro missing. Tho osoapo had boon vory ingeniously planned, and before leaving tho gaol the Englishman and his acoom« |)lioo had broken opon a cupboard in tho buroati and hoi pod thomsolvos to somo money. On inquiry it was disooverod (hit they had drivon avray in a carriage which hod evidently boon in waiting for them, in tho direction of Annooy. Tho pro* tended dotootivo had also dlsoppoared. Thoso two men aro boliovod to bolong to an orgnniaod gang, who mako a businoss of defrauding Continental bankors and tndospoople by moons of dummy cheques and forgod lottors of credit ; tho turnkey was capfarod at Groonoblo on Friday, but tho Into tenant of St Antonino nnd his conlcdorato nppoar to havo mado good Uioir escape"