TWO CASES DISMISSED
ALLEGED TAYSHEET FRAUDS (P.A.) DUNEDIN, Tuesday. Charges arising from alleged irregularities in army paysheets were heard in the Police Court to-day. James William Harold Smith and Lewis Norman Grant, both civilians, '.were charged with obtaining respectively £15 1/3 and 16/2 by false pretences, and with having committed forgery by appending fictitious signatures to paysheets. After evidence had been heai d counsel for the accused submitted that there was no prima facie case. The magistrate, Mr. H. J. Dixon, dismissed, all charges. He stated that on the false pretences count there was no evidence of fraud, as_ it seemed that the accused had worked for the money received. On the forgery charge, he said, the evidence was such that no jury would convict. Alexander Reid Young, who was similarly charged, the amount involved being £16 1/9, pleaded not guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 40, 17 February 1943, Page 4
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