Word: forgers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer a mere check forger, but with his name tied to wartime Washington scandal, a clandestine Alabama marriage, Boston heiresses, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Alfred B. Parkhurst languished in the East Cambridge jail last night pending formal government charges and his raising of $25,000 bail...
Died. Bertram M. Campbell, 60, British-born Wall Street customer's man who in 1938 was falsely convicted of forgery and sent to Sing Sing, was cleared of all charges (when a dope-peddling professional forger finally confessed) after 40 months of unjust imprisonment; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Freeport...
...river. But George was utterly willful, and he was a little cracked too. Witness the note he scribbled in lipstick on Miss Brown's bathroom wall: "For heaven's sake, catch me before I kill more." He wrote that in Bill's hand, like an expert forger...
Next to company and efficiency, he liked forgery. This had cost him two prison terms and an arrest last December. Digging into his secretive past, police found at least eight instances in which Forger Cline's buttermilk-drinking friends had died, leaving him legacies totaling $82,000. They also found that he left one of the coldest trails south of the Yukon...
...Jersey Methodists," J. Bates Upham had emerged from the Spanish-American war as the nation's most dexterous poker player. He had learned to dance like an angel while "working" the Cunarders on the Atlantic run, and had finally emerged from Sing Sing revered as a forger and a gentleman. "I seem naturally," he told Estelle, "to prefer enterprises where a little extra risk may bring a little extra reward." Then he slipped his arm hopefully around her slim waist...