Word: forgers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrong Number. In Ventura, Calif., arrested when he tried to cash a check made out to George Taylor, Forger John H. Keller claimed that he had picked the name out of the phone book, did not know that Taylor was chief of police...
Artifacts. When police raided an elegantly furnished apartment outside Milan, they found papers, special inks and pens, lenses and other artifacts of the professional forger, as well as a man who admitted that the letters were fakes. This at last was too much for Publisher Rizzoli. Oggi discontinued the series and beat a feeble retreat. "If the truth about these letters ever comes out," said Oggi self-righteously, "it will be thanks to us, because only Oggi had the nerve to print these letters...
...forger, who uses the name Richard John Maher, is definitely not a student in the University, but has managed to successfully use various types of identification cards, including a local meal ticket, to cash his checks. It is not known whether he is in possession of a bursar's card...
Detectives have visited stores in the Square to warn merchants to be on the look-out for the forger. Police have not, however, received complaints indicating that "Maher" is operating in this area...
...Lolita, the fiery divorcee who organized and led the armed assault on Congress (TIME, March 8), and they serve as a sort of battle hymn for the fanatic Puerto Rican Nationalist Party that also staged the 1950 assault on Blair House. Lolita, police discovered, is a convicted thief and forger who has spent much of her adult life in prison. Last week, as she and her friends were indicted on ten counts of assault (maximum sentence: 125 years), she seemed likely to spend some of her future there...