Found Guilty Of Receiving
A man who is serving a three-months’ gaol term for tendering worthless cheques was convicted by a Supreme Court jury yesterday on a charge of receiving the two stolen cheque forms in those crimes.
He is Robert Gourley, aged 26. a workman (Mr C. B. Atkinson). Gourley was charged with alternative counts of breaking and entering the warehouse from which the cheque forms were stolen, or of receiving the stolen forms. He was convicted on the receiving charge, and Mr Justice Macarthur remanded him for sentence on a date to be fixed. Outlining the Crown’s case, Mr C. M. Roper said the premises of K. F. Meates and Company, Ltd., were broken into on July 21 and the office ransacked. Two cheque books, each with one cheque in it, were stolen, as well as the petty cash tin and some money from the desk. The following Monday a man went to the Christchurch Hosiery Bar in High street and tendered a cheque tor £l6 5s 9d to buy rve pairs of stockings. Three days later a man tendered a cheque for £2l Ils 6d to buy two records ait the D.I.C. Gourley had been identified in each case.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29972, 6 November 1962, Page 12
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