This is True

Letterman

Police in Olathe, Kan., have re-arrested a forger after he was let out of jail based on a faxed letter from the Department of Corrections. The letter was a forgery, but was initially accepted as genuine even though it misspelled the word “governor”. Joshua Williams, 38, who was already on probation from a forgery conviction, was in jail awaiting trial on several more charges of forgery. Additional charges over the forged fax may be pending. “We’re real interested in finding the creative mind that faxed that letter,” a Department of Corrections spokesman said. (AP) ...Some people just don’t know the difference between write and wrong.


Publication Date: 14 March 1999

This story is in True's book collection, Volume 5.
  Buy True Books