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...Forger Foiler. To foil rubber-check passers, Food Fair's 24 supermarkets in Philadelphia installed DiGiTab, a fingerprinting device. If the cashier is suspicious of a check, he asks the customer To leave a fingerprint which is then attached to the check. DiGiTab's machine takes the print in a few seconds with a colorless, odorless, stainless ink. Where installed DiGiTab has frightened forgers away. In the past five months, Milwaukee's Krambo Stores cashed 108,000 good checks totaling more than $5,000,000. It did get stuck for $250 worth, all cashed by the same...
...that made the cops gasp. His name: Lothar Malskat, 39, artist by trade, and one of the painters who restored the bomb-burned 13th and 14th century frescoes in Lübeck's Lutheran Church of St. Mary (TIME, Sept. 10, 1951). His trouble: he was an art forger and he wanted to confess his crimes. In the past few years, he said, he and another artist named Dietrich Fey, the boss of the St. Mary restoration job, had painted and sold to German dealers and collectors "approximately 600" clever fakes of everything from Rembrandts to Utrillos...
Salvador Paz Guerra, forger and prison-jumper, who had smilingly lighted a cigarette when a judge gave him 20 years, had to be dragged from his cell. Jose Colombres, a six-foot, pock-marked murderer, knelt tearfully and begged to stay. When a convicted murderess' name was called, she split the air with a scream, "Virgin of Guadalupe, have mercy...
Detailed Description. In Lexington, Ky., after a swindled merchant set cops on the trail of a forger wearing a ragged coat fastened with an eightpenny nail, Suspect Brice Young protested: "It couldn't be me. My coat is fastened with tenpenny nail...
...accept the cliché about the cleverness of the Chinese as fact, and I am prepared to believe a really ingenious forger capable of almost anything, but I simply do not credit your story [TIME, Sept. 24] that "many of the money orders were small, and the amounts were often changed by clever forgers, e.g., $1.37 to $1,379.44." Any such tidy kiting of U.S. Postal Money Orders is completely outside the realm of possibility, inasmuch as the absolute maximum value of each...