| Show TALENT misdirected A pretty canadian garit work in making illegal money for nearly nine months the public hag been systematically defrauded by the connivance of an adept at alter ing bank the man or woman who conceived tho idea and operated tho system must have had confederates as the work was carried on somewhat extensively tho complaint first came from the dominion bank officials one of their experts found among the bills one day a two dollar note which was about tarse of an inch than the usual length he examined tha bill more email piece was missing from a place almost in the center of the note thinking that this might have been torn oat accidentally nothing was thought of the occurrence until a few days later another bill of the same denomination turned up short in length to the same extent aa tha first the piece missing from this bill however it was noticed was from another portion of tha note suspicion was aroused and a careful the bill made whereupon it was discovered that the missing piece had been cut out ant the work had been acue so cleverly and accurately that no person but an expert banker would notice tho deficiency the detective department was communicated munica ted with and the short bills which continued to como in were handed over to them it was several months before they were able to understand how the perpetrators of the fraud could bo benefited at last they had nine of these short bills and an analysis of the different places where the cutting operation had been performed solved for ahm the problem there had been enough paper taken troia these nino bills to make if properly put together a tenth note almost as long as the others which would pasa anywhere undetected the detectives know that the work waa going on and an officer was put on the case especially some months ago several weeks ago he suspected that the operator was a woman and close watch was kept over her yesterday a warrant waa edom ont accusing a pretty young woman named catharine rhodes with altering and uttering dominion bank bills she is only eighteen years of age and lives with her father robert rhodes a laborer at 45 wardell street it is understood that the operators whoever they are have been making five dollar notes in the same manner out of bills belonging to other canadian banks the cutting out work was evidently done with a razor and by a cunning hand toronto globe |
