FORGERY ALLEGED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 259, 2 November 1931, Page 9

FORGERY ALLEGED.

MONEY BY CHEQUES.

TWO WREATHS ORDERED

"NOT REQUIRED" WHEN

DELIVERED

Six charges of forging names to cheques and one of obtaining £7 S/ by means of a valueless cheque for £25 were brought against Herbert Helm, a labourer, aged 48, in the Police Court this morning. Detective Sergeant Kelly prosecuted. An undertaker in Mount Eden Road said that on September 23 accused went into his place to buy artificial wreaths. He said they were for his mother-in-law, and they were to be sent to Park Road. He asked -for a card to put on each wreath. Witness said the names, he thought, were "Lil" and "Bert." The value of the wreaths was 35/, and accused tendered a cheque for £6 5/ on the National Bank of New Zealand, Onelmno-a. Witness accepted the cheque and gave. £4 10/ change. He later ■delivered'the wreaths and found that they were not required at the place of delivery. There was no account at the bank in the name given on the cheque.

, Offered Two Weeks' Rent. A , retired business man said accused called at his home inSandringham early, on the morning of October 7. He brought a letter from a land aeont who. has some shops to let for me," said witness. "He said he was prepared to pay 25/ rent, and pftve his name as A. E. Best,, He offered to pay two weeks' vent in advance, and handed me a cheque on the National Bank for £5. [ gave him a cheque for £2 10/ as A. "salesman employed by a , local rubber company said that on October 9 accused bought goods valued at £2 and o-ave a cheque for £S on the Bank of New Zealand. Witness gave him £<> in change. , An Insurance Deal. "I met accused in a city hotel on October 12," said an insurance agent. "He said he was a pig farmer at Mount \lbert I asked him about life insurance and he said- that he already had a policy with another company. Later he decided to take a policy for £100, which was completed and signed by accused then. It was, signed in the. name of Alfred Bertram Wallbank. Later in the afternoon accused called. at the office, was examined by the doctor and asked if we had a cheque form on- the National Bank. He_ asked lif he could receive £5 in addition to I paying the premium, and this was agreed to* by the manager, after some talk. The body of the cheque was made out by me for £8 17/7, and this was signed by accused at A. B. Wallbank Eventually this was returned from the bank marked 'Signature unlike specimen held. , "

The manager of a Mount Eden dairy said accused-on October 19 called at the house door about 7.45 a.m., said Jus name was Williams, and that he wanted to pay an account. The amount was 16/4. -"He paid me .-with-, -a cheque for £2 drawn by G. Williams," said witness, "and I gave'him £1 3/2 change. Helm pleaded not, guilty, and wa§ committed for trial. Bail was refused.