Jim the Penman.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17661, 12 August 1929, Page 7

Jim the Penman.

There are forgers an! forgers, but; William Reynolds, who has been “sent: up"’ from the Old Bailey for seven years was an artist in his profession (writes the London correspondent of the Edinburgh “Weekly Scotsman”). He seems to have produced Bank of England notes, successfully from l.is point of view, without any intricate or delicate mechanical appliances of any kind. < At his address the police found only three bottles of different coloured inks, a drawing-pen, and a magnifying-glass. When he was arrested the police found nearly 100 halffinished notes, He l , could produce watermarks by hand, . ! then he traced out the spurious notes in pencil and inked over the tracing, the water-marks being simulated with grease. Recently his ' notes were reaching the Bank of England every week, having already served their purpose, so far as he was concerned, even when the Bank rejected them.