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The Forged Bank Notes single work   short story   crime  
Issue Details: First known date: 1896... 1896 The Forged Bank Notes
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Melbourne crime tale. The narrator, working odd jobs to support his family in the days of crashes after the land boom, is injured by a fallen load of bricks, and is witness to a card game in which a man is drugged and the contents of his bag exchanged. Two newspaper reports, the latter of a merchant charged with forgery, identify the crime as forgery and the victim. He reveals what he knows, criminals are caught and the man rewarded. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 31 no. 376 September 1896 Z1052832 1896 periodical issue 1896 pg. 688-689
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