Forger

This person appears to have been none other than Beddington, the famous forger and cracksman, who, with his brother, had only recently emerged from a five years' spell of penal servitude.

The sudden outflow of counterfeit notes from the bank alerted investigators to an expert forger on the inside.

Rumors spread that the forger had bribed the guards at the palisade with expertly faked coins, buying himself safe passage.