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Some of the fakers have taken their own places in art history. One Edward Simpson, a 19th century master forger of Stone Age implements, came to be admired among archaeologists as the fabulous "Flint Jack." Two illiterate London mudrakers named Billy and Charley produced and buried thousands of "ancient" metal objects, and such objects are known as "Billys and Charleys" to this day. An ingenious forger named Peter Thompson, actually a carpenter and builder living near Regent's Park in the 1840s, not only forged 17th century "master drawings," but also invented the master. He named the man Captain...
Occupational Therapy. In New Orleans, James W. Seaton, a convicted forger in Louisiana State Penitentiary, pleaded guilty to sending out fraudulent income tax returns to internal revenue offices in Louisiana. Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado and Utah, collecting $1,050 in refunds...
...were arrested as the leaders of a brazen, multithousand-dollar burglary ring. In the case of two airline crashes in which 76 hapless passengers lost their lives, fingers of suspicion pointed to Julian Frank, a heavily insured lawyer who died in one crash, and to Robert Spears, a convicted forger who may have died in the other. In each case, the investigations centered on a grim possibility: the premeditated bombing of both planes in midair...
...jailbirds, self-sprung from a nearby prison farm, might be lurking around Engle's summer home, a rambling old stone house near Cedar Rapids. Quipped Engle's car companion, daughter Mary, 18: "Oh, we'll probably find them at our house!" They did. The fugitives, a forger and an auto thief, had already held Engle's wife for nearly five hours, also had daughter Sara, 14, at kitchen-knifepoint. In the three hours that followed, the resourceful Engle family kept its nerve, calmed and steadied the jittery convicts, followed Papa Engle's strategy to "just...
Cultural Clamor. For ten years the case dragged through the courts. A Paris tribunal held that Bonnard had committed a crime in writing Marthe's will; he was posthumously declared a forger, thief and receiver of stolen goods. A higher court argued that Bonnard could not have been a receiver of his own paintings, had faked the will only to facilitate matters. The even higher Court of Cassation set aside this decision and reaffirmed the basic law, ruling that an artist's work-unless he draws up a special marriage contract-belongs also to his wife...