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caught. He was well aware that most countries still reserve their most severe penalties for forgery or the handling and passing of forged currency. Indeed, on any French banknote could still be read the details of the punishment reserved for such offences; in France it was ‘incarceration for life on Devil's Island’ and the film, ‘Papillon’ put him off that.
    After a lot of thought and several different attempts, he settled for the 'Second National City Bank of Dallas' as the named bank to supply his phony che ques. He reasoned that as Dallas was frequently in the news because of a television series and as the location of the assassination of President Kennedy, most people would already be familiar with the name and therefore it should arouse few suspicions. As far as he had been able to find out from his library researches, there was already a 'First City' bank and also a 'First National' bank, so he merely combined the two, changed it slightly and demoted the bank from the 'First' to 'Second' division. Next, he gave his fictitious bank an equally fictitious address in Dealey Plazza, Dallas, should anyone wish to check!
     

Chapter 3
    Attention to detail
     
    Pascoe spent many hours in different libraries researching travelers' che ques, but apart from learning that they had been started by the famous Wells Fargo company and finding numerous illustrations of them, he learnt little new. Some were extremely elaborate affairs, with intaglio, raised texture printing; some had water marks or were printed with fluorescent inks, but none of these things concerned him as forgery wasn't his intention. He was going to invent his own bank and print the cheques to his own design... that was the beauty of his scheme... he wouldn't be forging but creating!
    Once he had decided on the name to use, he designed the supporting stationery, carefully choosing 'house-colors' to co-ordinate all the printed material. Everything went to plan until he came to the plastic wallets in which the che ques are usually supplied. He could hardly supply wads of cheques without having something to put them in as that would certainly have aroused suspicion. Reluctantly, he realized that he would have to have them specially made, but it was hardly something with which he could approach various plastics manufacturing companies in England.
    The solution to the problem eventually came as a result of one of his frequent trips to the local library. While in the section studying banking methods, he stumbled across a book on forgery ... not the type concerning bank-notes or cheques, but one covering the forgery of goods and brand-names, everything in fact from Rolex watches to Levi jeans. The center of what was obviously a highly commercial and thriving business was Hong Kong, where, if the book was to be believed, anything could be copied and forged to order. Once he knew where to look, the rest was relatively easy as he had an old friend in Hong Kong and was able to write to him, asking for the names and addresses of various plastics manufacturers in the colony.
    In the fullness of time he received replies to his enquiries, contacted each company in turn and was surprised to find that they were all willing to do business with him and at very reasonable prices. Accordingly, he supplied the company which had quoted the most favorable price with an authentic American Express wallet as a prototype and ordered a quantity of similar wallets to be supplied. The only difference was that they were to be embossed 'Dallasbank' and not of course 'American Express' on the flap of the wallet.
    Gradually the planning stage of the printing requirements was taking shape. The size of the cheques was identical to the American Express cheques which would fit the wallets, namely 16 x 8 centimeters. A comparison of all the different cheques he had bought showed that only the length of the cheque was important... they were all identical in this dimension and had obviously been