On the day after Thanksgiving, 1941, George Velky forged cheques to the value of $64 to buy paint, wallpaper and groceries. His choice of alias—George Belky—proved insufficient to keep him out of jail.
George Velky - from our story 'Small Town Noir – Twenty-One ’30s and ’40s Mugshots from New Castle, Pennsylvania'
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