An expert finer of bank-notes, and a woman who helped
him, have been apprehended at Birmingham. " thtorge Bradnock, the man ap- prehended, is by trade an engraver, but km some years was employed as an exciseman at Wellington ie Shropshire, and has been long snspected of being extensively engaged iu Bank of England forgeries. The female prisoner, there is little doubt, has also beets fore long period con- nected with the trade. She has a family of eleven children, and is closely related to some of the most respectable families in the town. It is understood that the prisoners were engaged, when disturbed, in getting up an order of 2,t1 five-pound notes and 250 ten-pound notes tbr certain parties front Blanchester, who were waiting in Birmingham for its completion. At the time the police were in the hotc-e, these gentry were seen in the neighbourhood; but, catching a sight of the officers, they suddenly and expeditiously escaped. In the course of a few hours the order would have been finished, and Manchester and its neighbourhood in the course of a week inundated with forged paper. The notes were completed were for a, dated November 14, MIS,' and signed .1. Booth."The press and implements employed are in every respect perfect, and the notes well executed."
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