COUNTERFEIT NOTES.
CABLE NEWS
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CIRCULATED IN ENGLAND.
WORK OF CLEVER CONVICT
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o clock.) LONDON, Sept. 20.
Many counterfeit notes are in circulation. The notes are tho work of a clever penman, who is an inmate of Peterhead gaol. The notes have the word live written across them in red. Tho work is marvellous, being done without special implements. They were circulated by Admiralty labourers, who were working on. a building alongside the convicts. A letter, written by a prisoner, was found, promising to pay a fiver for some tobacco and a very line pen. One workman was dismissed £or writing to a convict for notes. The notes were usually hidden under the stones at the harbour works for the free men to discover. . There were only one or two warders in charge of over a hundred convicts.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 September 1913, Page 5
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147COUNTERFEIT NOTES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 September 1913, Page 5
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