But the suspicions sown by Clement cannot quite be abolished by the hanging of him: Forger indisputably; but who knows whether he had not something of fact for his?
He rose at last to eminence as a carver: but as an inventor and forger of carving tools he had no rival in England.
He found Henry out, and offered him constant employment, as a forger and cutler of carving-tools, at L4 per week.
If 2 Peter is not genuine, it is improbable that the forger would borrow from a writing which from the first was regarded with suspicion, because it quoted apocryphal literature.
The forger will, most probably, have practised the signature before affixing it to the cheque or other document, thereby attaining a certain degree of fluency.
More than one forger has admitted that his initiatory lessons were prompted by an innocent challenge to imitate a particularly complicated "forgery-proof" signature.
One would imagine that a forger would pay sufficient attention to his materials to be on his guard against the blunder which earned the perpetrator of the Whalley Will Forgery penal servitude.
Sooner or later the forger lapses into some trick of his own, and it is here the trained observer catches him.
The forger well knows how difficult is the task of maintaining an assumed character.
The most difficult signature for the forger is the clear, plain, copybook-modelled autograph.
As a matter of fact the only chance the forger of an erased cheque has lies in the carelessness of the teller.
These, however, hardly come under the head of the class of fraud with which the ordinary forger is associated.
This peculiarity appears to have escaped every forger whose work we have examined.
For example, the official description of an absconding forger runs as follows:--"He has a habit of rubbing his right thumb against the middle finger as if turning a ring.
You will trace down the forger of those pictures before it is too late?
Barring the false Van Dyke beard, it was the face of John Carroll, forger and morphine fiend.
In this case they must have had the additional advantage that the insider in the company or bank could give information and tip the forger off if the forgery happened to be discovered.
The By-Products forger happened to get in it and he bribed the photographer to give him the plate and take another picture for the booklet which would leave him out.
A forger of deeds could be branded in the forehead with the letter F; while for defacing the records the offender could be disfranchised and branded in the face.
There are professional criminals of a different grade, like the forger and the confidence man.
After a forger grows to be an expert, he can move from town to town.
The forger did see the original,' I cried, 'but not the fair copy.
Amongst Worth's most trusted followers was an American, Charles Becker, the very greatest forger who ever lived, not even excepting the famous "Jim the Penman.
I have told you--they would not even let me try to find out how the hand of a forger moves.
Advertisements offering large rewards were circulated; but the unknown forgerbaffled detection.
But the forger need have no accomplice; he is burdened with no bulky and suspicious property; he needs no receiver to assist his contrivances.
On account of the lack of a dot the forgeris detected.
Helmholtz's experiment probably seemed fantastic to the forger condemned by a stereoscope.
She knew positively that Mr. Aaron Woodward was the forger of the checks, Holtzmann had presented them, and Ferguson had so altered the daily reports that my father had unwittingly made a false showing on his books.
Yet I made out enough to learn that Aaron Woodward was the forger of the notes and checks that had sent my father to prison, and that the death of a relative in Chicago was only a pretence.
He is considered by some of her defenders to be the forger of the wonderful letters which, if true, are the most undeniable proof of her guilt.
One of them, the forger Nikita, is returning to his native land; he is wounded in the leg and it is hard for him to walk.
It had been of course necessary that each name should be witnessed;--but here the forger had scamped his work.
Wise printed a facsimile reprint in 1886, which has been used by the forger to deceive.
John, bad John, too probably the forger of that letter, as the forger of this will?
But her letters have been tampered with by an editor, who was a forger and a falsifier.
They became content to be deceived, to live in a twilight of fiction, under clouds of false witness, inventing according to convenience, and glad to welcome the forger and the cheat #14.
Why not tell her plump all about it; not, as you have already, that you have been the dupe of forgers, but that you are a forger yourself?
Several minutes passed during which the forger went on with his work, which seemed mere amusement, with all the tranquillity of a nobleman in his study, well aware that nobody durst disturb him.
As for the man who wrote this letter,' Mr. Dering went on, 'he bears the name of ourforger and writes from the same address.
If you and your brother between you will kindly produce the forger and give me back my property, I shall be truly grateful.
If the forger had possessed keys, he would, first of all, have cleared out the things which he could turn into money without any difficulty and very little risk.
The forger could not possibly by accident choose the same name.
I say now that he is the forger of these letters, and that Austin stood in with him and was his confidant.
Now--which was very remarkable--though the forger had had a clear run of three weeks, it could not be discovered that any of the notes had been presented.
Nor have I the least intention of being on intimate relations with a forger who has only just escaped being a convict.
They have been seen together at the house from which the forger addresses his letters.
The forger says: "See--I do what I please with you.
And towards the discovery of the forgerno further step had been taken.
There is no reason why this dreamer of dreams should not be also a forger and a thief.
