FORGER'S GOOD DEED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19143, 8 October 1925, Page 12

FORGER'S GOOD DEED.

HEROISM IN THE WAR. SAD END IN POLICE CELL, LONDON, Sept. 26. fJie. arrest of John Hurley, the forger, who was found hanged in his cell at Bow Street, was due to a woman whom he had duped in connection with a cheque. Seeing him in the company of another woman she immediately telephoned to the police. The only redeeming feature of Hurley's career was revealed at his trial in 1916, when, with his confederate Vaughan, be was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for forging a will and endeavouring to wrongfully obtain £4900, The Rev. Cyril Harrison, Anglican chaplain at the Antwerp gaol, gave evidence that during the German bombardment of the city in 1914, Hurley and Vaughan, who were prisoners, acted with the greatest heroism, and assisted him and his wife to escape amid a rain of shells. The Belgians, released both prisoners on the day before the Germans entered Antwerp, and Hurley reached England. He repaid the chaplain money which ha had lent him to assist him to escape.