LIVERPOOL BANK FRAUDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11878, 1 February 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)

LIVERPOOL BANK FRAUDS.

REMARKABLE CONFESSION BY, GOUDIE. . KELLY'S BANKING TRANSACTIONS EXPLAINED. The story of the frauds on the Bank of Liverpool has been further unfolded at Bowstreet lately, when Thomas Petersen Goudie, lately a clerk in the Bank of Liverpool, was charged, on remand, before Mr. Fenwick, with forging cheques on tho bank, and Richard Burge, pugilist, Brixton, and Thomas Frederick Kelly; a Bradford bookmaker, were charged with' feloniously uttering some of the cheques so forged. Detective-Inspector Nairn, of .Scotland Yard, was then recalled, and said: I arrested Goudie, and brought him up to London by train. .He was very talkative on the journey, and, entirely unsolicited by me,: made a number of r statements. He said: "I first met Stiles and Kelly with another man whilst travelling in a. first-class carriage between Newmarket and London. On tile concluding day of the Cambridgeshire Meeting, 1900, 1 had been backing horses at the races. In the train, shortly after leaving Newmarket, I was spoken to first by. Stiles, who invited me to join in a game of solo whist with him and two other friends, which I did. Kelly made an appointment to meet him and Stiles at Hurst Park Races on the following day. I agreed, and stayed at the Bedford Hotel, in London, that night. I met Kelly and Stiles as agreed, and had some bets with them. I relumed to Liverpool, and Stiles and Kelly visited me there at various times. I did win once to the amount of £200. When I applied to Kelly for it he said * Stiles had borrowed it. - I told Kelly he had no authority to pay money; away ' belonging to me. The largest amount I think I ever won from Kelly or Stiles was about £250 in all. I dined once with Stiles and: a lady at the Trocadero. On other occasions I have met him in town, and he has introduced me to his wife at Wharfdale- Road, Earl's Court. Stiles used- to tell me he frequently had £10,000 each way on a, horse. I thought he was a substantial man. He had a man named Wicks with him at times, who acted as his footman. On one occasion a cheque for £9000 was returned to the bank, and I was asked if I thought the signature of Hudson was a genuine one. Of course I said ' Certainly it was,' and it was accepted as' Hudson's. I never wrote a cheque twice. They always went through without a challenge. The bank has been defrauded to the amount of about £163,504 10s. After I had known ' Stripes' (another name for Stiles) a man approached me in North John-street, Liverpool, where I did some business. He said to me, ' You are a' man who understands a lot about racing,' and forced a conversation on; the subject. I told him I was afraid he was mistaken; but he was very persistent, and said he knew I was a bank clerk, and could command plenty of money. I was alarmed, and consented tc grant him an interview. I asked him what his name was, and he said Mances. He was staying at the Charing Cross Hotel. I saw him on the evening of the same day, as I feared he might give the whole business away. The conversatioa was all about betting. Marks was introduced to me by Mances by wire. I never saw Marks. I don't know Dick Burge. Elsworthy and Haggerty, at Leeds,, got £4000 out of , me. Kelly sent me £205 some weeks ago, due to mo by Stiles." On arriving at Bowstreet I made a note of this conversation. A number of witnesses were then examined as to the details of the frauds-