ALLEGED FORGERY.
RECEIPTS FOR RELIEF MONEYS A RELIEF WORKER ACCUSED (Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Pleading not guilty to seven charges of forgery and seven of uttering, Herbert Edwin Barnsley, aged 52, an accountant, a relief worker and late' secretary and treasurer to the Labour Defence League, faced trial this morning before Mr Justice Ostler and a jury. It is alleged that Barnsley accepted money from the Mayor’s Relief Fund for distribution to the dependents of men imprisoned a.s a result of the disturbances in May, that he forged the signatures of seven women without giving them their money—3s in each case —and that he returned the forged receipts to the City Council tendering them as genuine receipts. The case is proceeding.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 14, 27 October 1932, Page 6
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123ALLEGED FORGERY. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 14, 27 October 1932, Page 6
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