100,000 BOGUS £1 NOTES
PRINTED IN GERMANY AND SHIPPED TO AFRICA. STRASBOURG,, Nov. 17. A British West African native named Emmanuel Bruce was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment at Nuremberg to-day for issuing counterfeit English banknotes. Bruce prevailed upon a Nuremberg engraver named Ilaydcn to, print for him 100,000 £1 notes, which he shipped to West Africa concealed in mattresses ' and empty oil barrels. His relatives in West Africa put the notes into circulation, but were arrested and imprisoned. Bruce and Hayden were arrested at Nuremberg oft the qomplaint of the British authorities. ' Hayden, who pleaded that he printed the notes thinking they were an advertising device, got off with one month’s im-‘ prisonment. -
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16534, 29 December 1927, Page 3
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114100,000 BOGUS £1 NOTES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16534, 29 December 1927, Page 3
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