FORGER IMPRISONED
COUNTERFEIT CLOTHING COUPONS BLACK MARKET SALES Rec. 11 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 23. A forger, who is believed to have handled more than 1,000,000 clothing coupons and sold them for 6d each, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to seven years penal servitude. He is Fred Watson, previously known to Scotland Yard as an expert coiner and producer of 10s notes. It is estimated that he made £25,000 bv faking coupons and spent it all recklessly. He might still have been at large had it not been for detectives overhearing a woman in a Paddington public house saying, “Coupons?—My dear I can get you thousands.” She was shadowed for weeks until Watson appeared one night. It was discovered that he distributed the coupons by a ring of “ droppers/’ Once he took a buyer into a shop, bought a shirt and offered forged coupons. They were accepted and a deal for 10,000 coupons was closed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26704, 25 February 1948, Page 6
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