GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEME

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 250, 21 October 1926, Page 8

GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEME

. j MAN WHO WROTE CHEQUES, I

GAOLED FOR CASHING THEM. |

THE TRUSTING STOREKEEPER

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) j WELLINGTON, this day." j In the Supreme Court, before Mr. Jus- j tice Reed, a native named Wereta (21),; at present under sentence of 12 months' j hard labour, to be followed by two years' | reformative treatment, appeared for sen- j tence on four charges of forgry nnd j uttring at Palrarston North, and had his sntence altered to two years' hard labour, I the reformative period being reduced to one year. Robert Forbes Rcid (:>2) appeared for, sentence for false pretences—nine charges in Palmerston North, six in Taumarunui, and five in Wanganui—and was sentenced to two years' hard labour on j each charge, sentences to bo concurrent. | Speaking on behalf of Reid, Mr. Dolan | said that prisoner's wife had become' involved in an action fir slander. The j case seemed to follow somewhat the Adam and Eve precedent. The Wife informed accused that a sum of £320 had been paid into the bank in satisfaction of the slander proceedings, and the husband, who rose from a tick bed, was then induced to draw cheques on the bank. His Honor: Surely you don't expect mc to accept that lie went round cashing £20 cheques all over tiie place. There were no less than twenty altogether. Counsel: Those are my instructions. The Crown Prosecutor said that Reid <rot £77 out of Palmerston North from the cheques, £36 at Wanganui, and £57 at Taumarunui. Counsel: Accused went on a chequecashing burst. His Honor: I suppose it is really the hardness of the times that makes storekeepers accept cheques in this way. They give goods at any risk apparently. The accused established himself at Palmerston, and dashed round in a motor car cashing cheques. Counsel asked his Honor to do his best for the accused to enable him to get ivyi of gaol as soon as possible and work for his family again. The Crown Prosecutor remarked that the' wife was on remand on charges" of theft.