CUNNING FORGERIES
COST BANKS £90,000. Through forgeries on a huge scale Denver (U.S.A.) banks were swindled out of £90,000 during a recent weekend. Two men handled the theft, one in New York, and the other in Denver. Six New York ' correspondents of Denver banks were notified in code telegrams of the American Bankers’ Association to deposit £15,000 each in the Chase National Bank at New York, where the accomplice, on Saturday morning, presented a forged cashier’s slip for tire withdrawal of £90,000. . The discovery of the theft came when ' the Denver hanks received charge slips through tire mails from New York.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 253, 24 September 1929, Page 10
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101CUNNING FORGERIES Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 253, 24 September 1929, Page 10
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