FRANC FORGERIES
THE ACCUSED SENTENCED. SHORT TERM OF IMPRISONMENT. (Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) BUDAPEST, May 26. (Received May 27, at 9 p.m.) Sentences of four years’ penal servitude were passed on the ex-Chief of Police, Dr Nadossy, and Prince Windischgraetz, and tyo years on Geroe, adviser to the Cartographical Institute in connection with the forged franc note affair. Two other members of the Cartographical Institute and Prince Windischgraetz’s secretary, Baba, and the other accused received" sentences ranging from eighteen months to one months’ imprisonment. Baross, director of the savings bank, and Szoertoye, vice-director of the National Union, were acquitted. Appeals were lodged by the prosecution tor more severe sentences and by the defendants for mitigation.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19801, 28 May 1926, Page 9
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