PURSUED ACROSS EUROPE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18630, 11 February 1924, Page 7

PURSUED ACROSS EUROPE.

FORGER RUN TO EARTH. BANKER'S STERN CHASE. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Feb. 8. The Rome correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that a banker's long and dramatic pursuit of an alleged forger is revealed by the arrest of a couple in Messina. _ Herr Seitz, director of the Deutsche Bank in Harvb- became suspicious of a trusted employee who disappeared after cashing five cheques for 250,000 gold marks by forging the banker's signature. Seitz, learning the fugitive had gone to Cologne, in order to fetch, his young wife, hired an aeroplane and flew thither. The couple, meantime, had gone to Munich. The banker hired the fastest motor-car and ascertained that the couple had just left Munich in an express train for Italy. Seitz secured legal documents and the services of a special policeman and caught the Rome express. The couple continued their journey to Sicily, which was revealed by the man having changed money at a Naples bank. Seitz continued the pursuit to Messina, where he inquired at the hotels and found the couple leaving for Syracuse and Malta. He rushed to the railway station and procured their arrests just as they were about to take the train.