THIS DAY. CHARGE OF FORGERY.

Evening Post, Volume XIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1876, Page 2

THIS DAY. CHARGE OF FORGERY.

Benjamin Henry Solomons was arraigned on an indictment charging him with forging and uttering a' cheque for £90 10s 3d, purporting to be signed by Andrew Tod, and drawn on the Bank of New South Wales at Wanganui. Accused pleaded not guilty. Mr. Izard prosecuted, and Mr. Travers defended. The evidence for the prosecution was to the effect that Mr. Andrew Tod had an account at the Bank of New South Wales, Wanganui. On the 29th of October last, accused presented and received cash for a genuine cheque of Mr. Tod's for£lol7s 3d, and on the following day he presented another cheque for £90 10s 3d, which was also cashed. The latter document was said by Mr. Tod to be a forgery. About ten days after it had been "cashed, the bank teller who paid the money recollected that Solomons was the person who presented the cheque, and he was thereupon arrested. The amount of the cheque was paid in £10 - notes on the Wanganui branch of the bank, but the bank officials could give no particulars by which these notes could be traced. The genuine cheque which the accused had cashed, and the forged document, were produced in Court, and it was clearly proved that they must have come out of different cheque books. The teller swore most positively that Solomon was the person who presented the two cheques. He also stated that he was present when Solomons was arrested ; and though ' he saw the money that was taken from him, he could not identify any of it as part of that which had been given in exchange for the forged cheque, i For the defence, several witnesses gave , evidence as to the previous good character borne by the accused. Mr. Travers, in addressing the jury, called their attention to the fact that both cheques were written in purple ink, and that the signatures were very similar. He suggested that Mr, Tod

might have given the cheque, and then forgotten all about the circumstance. Counsel having addressed the jury, his Honor summed up, and, after retiring for twenty minutes, returned a verdict of not guilty against the accused, who was discharged forthwith. RAPE. Michael Foley was charged with carnally knowing and abusing a Danish woman named Katrine Peteraen Rasmus- ™ P " sonei< Pleaded not guilty. Mr Izard conducted the prosecution G°rdoUG ° rdOU Allen the defence ' press J CaSG WM proceedin g wh en we went