There's no earthly doubt about it, of course; but wouldn't it be best to catch theforgers in the act before we call in the law?
If these fellows are an international gang of forgers they will have no scruples.
If you put it to me, I say I don't care a hang whether the forgers are caught or not.
But if the forgers are at work there, why should any one signal?
A large number of swindlers and forgers have an artlessness, and something clerical in their manner, which gives confidence to their victims.
In the popular mind, although it is just a question whether a man is bad enough to commit the greater crimes, yet thieves, violators, swindlers, forgers and murderers are all assumed to fall into the same category.
He had praised the forgers and was among the subscribers to the fund for the widow of Colonel Henry.
All the loathsome diseases were gathered into this moat to afflict the forgers and falsifiers.
Of the moulds used by forgers or others for copying coins we have already spoken (p.
Since the discovery in Greece of white-ground vases forgers have had a better chance, and they have often ingeniously availed themselves of genuine ancient vases on which to place modern paintings.
These forgers excel in turning out the white-ground vases, which, even when antique, cannot resist the action of alcohol.
But at any rate the forgers were not going to attempt the impossible task of cramming 'the land of 87 families' into the Selsey peninsula.
Still, I suppose you know that it is variously estimated that the forgersof the country are getting away with from ten to fifteen million dollars a year.
The common method of forgers lately has been to take such a certified forged check, deposit it in another bank, then gradually withdraw it in a few days before there is time to discover the forgery.
The same thing is observed in regard to forgers of commercial documents and to fraudulent bankrupts, who are partly drawn into crime under the stress of personal or general crises.
This, then, O gentlemen forgers and sporting-note alterers, is the kind of odds which is against you.
It is just such young pinheads as that who afterwards turn out to be our embezzlers, forgers and financial criminals.
Certain sections of the city swarm with boys who are steeped in vice and crime and are in embryo the murderers, the burglars and the forgers of tomorrow.
Mr. Cunningham was arrested recently on the charge of being one of a gang of forgers and "get-rich-quick" men who have been swindling Chicago and New York business houses and banks during the last few months.
He had taken leave of them at home, he answered, that his children might not see him mixed up with forgers and murderers.
The origin of the book in its present state is well-known; it is satisfactorily traced to two notorious forgers and scoundrels about thirty years ago, and all copies have been made from the one they produced.
Scott and Mr. Davies, given in the list, show samples of watermarks of the various periods affected by forgers of literary documents.
Further and fuller particulars of the methods resorted to by forgers to simulate ancient documents will be given in the chapter on Autographs.
A very common method employed by forgers to give an appearance of age to the ink used in spurious old documents is to mix with ordinary ink, muriatic acid, oxalic acid, or binoxalate of potash.
Expert forgers have devised means of counteracting this by rubbing in some substance which partially restores the original smoothness and mitigates the blurred appearance.
Yes; but I have had nothing to do with any forgersof banknotes," declared the unhappy man, reseating himself.
On that occasion you made certain calculations to ascertain how much were your profits by dealing with these forgers whom Scotland Yard are so anxious to arrest.
The forgers manufacture the pieces in the rough, the filers polish them and put them together.
The gun lock makers are ranged into two great divisions of forgers and filers, beside many subdivisions.
Somewhere," she said slowly, "I have read that clever forgers use water colors and pen and ink like regular artists.
That it was written as it now stands by the forgers of the second century admits of no doubt.
Of the latter the police are well aware that he is one of the most expert forgers in Europe.
They are all confounded and ashamed: theforgers of errors are gone together into confusion.
Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.
Long before they came to maturity the forgers hoped to be well beyond arrest.
As each transaction was carried out from a different address, and a different messenger always employed, the forgers always escaped detection.
I am, however, anticipating somewhat, and must retrace my steps, and indicate briefly one or two of the early forgers who passed through Newgate and suffered for the crime.
Much the same plan was adopted by these forgers as by Saward to get their cheques cashed.
This became almost a necessity, since there were frequently batches of twenty or thirty convicted forgers awaiting execution, though the death penalty was only exacted in a relatively small proportion of the cases.
Skilful forgers guard against this obvious sign of alteration by treating the erased place with a solution of rosin in spirit, which leaves a fine shiny layer upon the paper similar to that of the original sizing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forgers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
