Forged Note Gang
BIG BAG BY THE POLICE PARIS. An hour-long tommy-gun shooting match round a Paris suburban villa ended with French police rounding up a gang of forgers who, within two months, had put into circulation £500,000 worth of false French notes. When, in June, the French Government carried through the compulsory exchange of old notes for new, bank officials expressed their fears that the new issue, most of them printed in America and Britain, would prove a gold mine for forgers. In fact, within a few days of the exchange being completed a gang of men got together, bribed two Parisian suburban printers to do the job, and were soon producing hundred of forged notes daily. One day a Paris publican mentioned to a visiting C.I.D. man that one of his poker-playing clients, who usually postponed payment of his card debts, had settled them all On the spot from a bundle of suspiciously new notes. Further inquiries led to the tracking down of one of the gang chiefs to a villa in the suburb of Romainville. It was there that the tommy-gun battle was fought. The gangster fired to the last shot. And from information given by the arrested chief the police were able, during the weekend, to lay hands on moro than 20 of his assistants.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 267, 12 November 1945, Page 2
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219Forged Note Gang Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 267, 12 November 1945, Page 2
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