Considerable excitement has been caused by the dis- closure of
a serious robbery from the Bank of Liverpool. On Friday week the Chairman of the Liverpool Stock Exchange received a statement from the in onager of the bank to the effect that owing to the extensive defalcations of a young bookkeeper named Goudie, who had absconded, the bank might lose £170,000. A further statement from the manager sets forth the process by which the fraud was accomplished. It appears that Goudie, the ledger clerk, who bad become the tool of a gang of betting men in London and elsewhere, was in the habit of sending them forged cheques drawn upon an account kept with the bank, through which cheques for a large amount were not infrequent. Further significance was lent to this statement by the arrest on Monday of a professional boxer named Burge on the charge of uttering forged cheques on the Bank of Liverpool to the amount of £86,000, and by the disappearance on Tuesday of Mr. Larry Marks, a well-known City bookmaker. Mr. Marks, for whom a warrant had been issued in connection with the Liverpool Bank robbery, had telegraphed that he would arrive at Folkestone from Boulogne on Tuesday, but on the arrival of the boat the Scotland Yard authorities only found his luggage, containing a considerable sum of money, and a letter intimating that he was about to commit suicide. Goudie is also missing, having literally disappeared into space. The whole story is, in fact, as sensational in its inci- dents as if it were fiction rather than fact.
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