FORGED FRANC NOTES
OFFENDERS SENTENCED PRINCIPALS GET FOUR YEARS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 27, 8.45 p,m.) BUDAPEST, May 26. Sentences of four years’ penal servitude were passed on the ex-Chief of Police, Nadossy, and on Prince Windischgraetz, and two years on Geroe, adviser to the Cartographical Institute, in connection with the forged franc note affair. Two other members of the Cartographical Institute, and Windischgraetz’s secretary, Raba, and other accused persons received sentences ranging from eighteen months to one month’s imprisonment. Baross, director of the Savings Bank, and Szoertoye, vice-di-rector of the National Union, were acquitted. Appeals were lodged by the prosecution for more severe sentences, and by the defendants for mitigation.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12458, 28 May 1926, Page 2
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114FORGED FRANC NOTES New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12458, 28 May 1926, Page 2
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