HONEYMOON FORGERS.
ITALIAN VILLA'S SECRET.
A honeymoon villa in Piedmont has been the scene of a Sherlock Hohnes-like mystery. Some time ago an apparently newly-married couple rented a beautiful villa near ,BogHasco. Apparently they were well off, because they brought with them two men servants and a cook. After they had arrived with several bi<", heavy trunks, they rarely came out. Nobody visited them or even entered the villa.
This secretiveness raised suspicion among the country people, who smilingly called the villa tho Abode of Love. It was then discovered that it was an of crime.
The bridegroom, the bride, and the servants were a gang of forgers who had transformed the villa into a complete workshop where they produced forged bank notes for ninety million lire (about £900.000).
After leaving the villa and cancelling all traces of their criminal work, they tried to spend the money in Austria and then in Italy. A detective unearthed the whole affair, and the false bride made a confession which brought about tho arrest of her accomplices, who are now being tried.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18019, 18 February 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)
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179HONEYMOON FORGERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18019, 18 February 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)
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