VALUELESS CHEQUES.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 170, 19 July 1924, Page 11

VALUELESS CHEQUES.

YOUTH'S JOY RIDE. (By Telegraph.—Own Corresipondent.) ' HAMILTON, this day A youth named Eric John Mercer, alias E. J.-Le Baine, pleaded guilty before Mr. H. A. Young, S.M., at Hamilton yesterday to issuing two valueless cheques for £5 and £4 respectively by means of a false pretence. It seems that accused asked a Te Awamutu taxi driver named Joseph Chadwick to drive him. and a young woman to Raglan. On reaching Kauroa, a few miles from Raglan, he got the driver to pull up at a house, which he said belonged to his uncle, J. Belimi. On emerging later he gave the driver a cheque for £5 bearing the signature of J. Belimi. He then asked to be driven back, and on arrival at Hamilton he gave the driver another cheque for £4, receiving £3 10/ change. That same evening the young woman rang the taxi driver up, stating that she was Mercer's wife, mentioned that both cheques were "crook," and asked him not to act as. accused's 'mother would square everything up. The cheques were never redeemed. Accused was committed for sentence.