ALLEGED FORGERY.
A GLASGOW CASE.
(BY CABLI—PMSSB ASSOCIATION—COPTSIOHT.) (AT/STEAUAN AHD V.t. CABLX ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, May 4,
A Scottish (minister's son, David Chalmers Anderson, said to have been employed by a rich old man named John Wilson as manager of his affairs, at 30s a week, was charged at Glasgow with uttering forged documents involving a sum of .£50,000. Wilson died at the age of ninety-two. According to the doctors he was nearly blind, and was in a state of senility. It was alleged that documents relating to the transfer of some of Wilson's scrip bore a signature which was not Wilson's.
An Edinburgh bookmaker said Anderson lost £IOOO in bets at Ascot. He later visited America. Anderson <told him that he had bought a dance hall for. £50,0t)0. .'
A nephew of Wilson stated that he thought that, apart from his salary, Anderson had not a farthing in the world. He was surprised to learn that he had bought a house and a motor-
The case was adjourned-
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17756, 7 May 1923, Page 14
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