SUSPECT CHARGED.
REMANDED FOR WEEK.
| COURSE OF MONEY TRACED. ! (By Telegiapli.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Following he bank fraud reported on Saturday, James Alexander Fleming 26 appeared in the Police Court this morn! ing charged with obtaining £834 16/8 by a forged bill of exchange. He was remanded for seven days. Further particulars showed' that the girl who innocently presented the order took it on instcuctions to a taxi company oflice, which, in turn, had been instructed to take the bag to Cavendish Chambers, leaving it just inside the main doorway, where it would be picked up.. Quite unconscious of its contents, a taximan left it there. Evidently the forger, having watched his unwittin® accomplice leave the bank, had then hurried to Cavendish Chambers to watch for the deposit of the bag. The police traced the course of the money and effected an arrest of the suspect in seven hours.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1936, Page 8
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