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The article focuses on the history of fakes and forgeries. Many originals like manuscripts, letters, books, and maps have been victimized by forgeries. Forgeries have been present throughout the history of mankind. some of the most notorious forgers were Titus Oates and Perkin Warbeck. Forgers have victimized many known personalities like Michelangelo and William Makepeace.

Discusses the detail of alleged forgery of checks committed by the detectives of Los Angeles County Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess in California. Investigation lead by Lieutenant Kenneth R. Hayes; Use of term modus operandi for the distinctive technique during the investigation; Responsibility of the bank officials on cash stolen and payroll checks with forged endorsements.

Focuses on swindlers Frederick Peters and Neil McConlogue. Occupations assumed by Peters as an impostor; Expertise of McConlogue in forgery; Prison sentence received by Peters and McConlogue.

The article discusses the results of the author's investigation on the real story behind the photographed diary of Robert W. Grow, the former specialist of the U.S. in Russia. Accordingly, Grow was awaiting court-martial due to the accusation of being an advocate of an all-out war against Russia as manifested in his diary. The investigation found that quotations found in the diary that were allegedly cited by Soviet propagandists about Grow as a fire-eating militarist were all forgeries.

The article presents recommendations on protecting oneself from forgery resulting from check fraud. A former employee stole a check-writing machine, typewriter and payroll checks to create checks payable to his name. The carelessness of employers about checking the background of their workers contributes to check frauds. Several methods are used to imitate signatures including tracing, muscle forgery and freehand copying.

The article profiles the life of New York Public Library biblio-criminal investigator G. William Bergquist. Bergquist was responsible for the arrest of manuscript forgers Charlie Romm and Harold Borden Clarke. But his most cunning work was the recovery and authentication of the manuscript of Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering, which vanished in 1932. From among these forgers, Bergquist distinguishes Joseph Cosey. He is a forger who specializes in Lincoln signature.

The article discusses the emergence of claimants to more than $17 million gilt-edged securities of the late Henrietta Garrett who left no formal will. Some fortune hunters committed perjury and forgery to bolster their claims. Her husband, the late businessman Walter Garrett, bought her three homes, a mansion in Atlantic City, New Jersey and two adjoining red-brick houses in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Charles S. Starr of Starr & Co., made formal claim to the entire remainder of the estate.

The article discusses the work of Clark Sellers, a Los Angeles document expert. The article outlines cases of forgery where Sellers successfully presented evidence to convict the criminals. These includes a case of a woman with a forged will, a young man accused of kidnapping and murderer Alfred S. Cline, who married and poisoned propertied widows.

The article cites a situation about a brother-in-law who after completing the term of forgery was allowed to stay in the house whose owner has a substantial bank account. The purpose of the stay was to change the attitude of the man. However, the owner found out that his account is reduced due to $100 deduction. So, he sued the bank assigned to his account. The bank attorney said that the loss was the fault of the owner for allowing bad people to stay in his house.

Presents information on a lawsuit involving a man who forged a check on Sunday. Claims of the forger on the validity of all contracts signed on Sunday; Decision of the supreme court to free the man as forgery cannot be committed where the document involved was not legal in the first place.

Presents information on a lawsuit filed against a bank which cashed a forged check for failure to detect forgery. Background on the case; Argument of the counsel of the U.S. Department of Treasury on the bank's acceptance of the draft.