NOTE FORGERIES
CLEVEREST FOR YEARS TWO MEN GO TO GAOL OPERATIONS ON BIG SCALE [By Telegraph—Per *ress Assn.--Copyright.] Received Feb. 16, 11.15 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 16. For the cleverest note forgeries of recent years, Arthur Southgate was to-day sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude and Fred Green to ten years’, at the Manchester Assizes. It was stated that 1065 forged Treasury notes had been actually traced to the accused, who must have manufactured several thousand. A diary kept by one of the prisoners showed that they had worked in over 50 towns, distributing notes which an expert stated were the best forgeries he had seen in 33 years’ experience. The police stated that many notes had actually passed through the Bank of England, and Mr Justice Wright confessed that he could not himself distinguish between the forgeries and the genuine notes.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19769, 17 February 1927, Page 7
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141NOTE FORGERIES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19769, 17 February 1927, Page 7
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