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Late in 1937, when young District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey was adding a high score of convictions to his reputation as a gang buster, New York City banks were plagued by a series of big-money forgeries. The methods indicated the work of a master crook. The forger had been seen -by bank clerks who cashed the forged checks. But there were no clues, other than that the forger claimed to have an office at No. 39 Broadway...
Then the break came. At No. 39 Broadway detectives discovered a portly, florid, mustached man who seemed to be the spit & image of the forger bank tellers remembered...
...Break. Last week Bertram Campbell, now a $50-a-week bookkeeper, was suddenly and dramatically cleared; proved, at last, was the fact that he had not been the forger. The culprit was none other than Alexander D. L. Thiel, the horseplaying, narcotic-spurred wizard of forgery who in some 40 years had left a $500,000 trail of bogus checks over the U.S. (TIME, April...
...Forger Thiel and Bookkeeper Campbell did indeed resemble each other, a little. Now, sentenced for one of his crimes, Thiel confessed, in writing, that he had done the job for which Campbell served time. He knew about it at the time, he said, but he felt himself to be "in an unfavorable position" to give himself...
...master picture-forger was one Hans van Meegeren, a little-known Dutch artist. Although he worshiped Adolf Hitler, he felt no compunction about unloading a fake on fellow Nazi Hermann Göring. Göring got Christ and the Adulteress in a trade for 173 paintings. One revealing way in which Master-Painter Van Meegeren overshot the mark was by producing so many Vermeers on religious subjects; of all the genuine Vermeers known, the only one that is religious in theme is the Edinburgh National Gallery's Christ with Mary and Martha...