VALUELESS CHEQUES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 302, 21 December 1926, Page 5

VALUELESS CHEQUES.

YOUNG MAN CHARGED. COMHMITTED FOR SENTENCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, this day. James Houston (2~>), appeared before Justices of the Peace this morning, charged that on September 1, at Palmerston North, he obtained, by means of a valueless cheque, a £15 suit of clothes and £2 in cash, from Leslie Willis: also that on the same date he did make a false document, to wit. a cheque for £I.~> 0/(i. drawn on the Bank cf Australasia. Stratford, purporting to be signed hy F. Bridgeman. farmer, of Kohuratahi. and did act upon the ..nne by uttering it to Reginald Thorald Jaggard. Accused was arrested by the Greytown police on December 14. in tie course of a statement to tho local detective, accused said that be arsived at Auckland, from London, ou October 4. 192,"), and eventually serried -it Suatford. He went into partnership with a car painter, but the venture was not profitable, so he left the town without money and secured employment at Bridgeman's farm. He was discharged after ten days, so he took the cheques, thinking this might tide him over until the money he expected arrived from England. The money had now arrived and he was prepared to make restitution. Accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Wellington Supreme Court for sentence. On a further charge of issuing a valueless cheque for £1S 0/0 at Stratford in August, to HMasters, Ltd.. purporting to be signed Frederick Stephen Spooneu, accused was remanded to appe.-.r at Stratford to-morrow.