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...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...
Most fantastic item: a collection of letters (among the correspondents: Plato, Socrates, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne) for which an incredibly gullible French scientist had paid 150,000 gold francs ($30,000) in the 18605 to a forger named Vrain-Lucas. One of the letters, written in French on old parchment, was from Lazarus to Jesus in thanks for having been raised from the dead. Barely discernible were the words: "See you in Rome, dear Lord...
Slight of Hand. In Buffalo, up for sentencing after pleading guilty, Forger Leander Jones confided to the judge that he could neither read nor write...