ALLEGED UTTERING

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 27, 31 January 1917, Page 2

ALLEGED UTTERING

SEQUEL -TO A MASTERTC-N. TRANSACTION.

Two men—Thomas Wilson and Robert Patrick Daley— >vere jointly charged, before Mr. L. G. Reid, -S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day with uttering a cheque for £48 at-Masterton. -It was explained by the prosecution that the complainant—Robert Usher Harden — wag a retired business man, who, in consequence of his infirmities, was in the habit of signing a number of cheques together. A cheque for £48, signed in Hardens handwriting, was presented by Daley to a hairdresser's-assiatant at Masterton, and duly cashed in, tho pro: senco of Wilson. Prior, to cashing the cheque, the assistant had made the necessary enquiries at the bank, and had found everything to be in order..Harden denied that the accused had any right to the cheque whatever, and, under cross-examination by Mr. H. 1\ O'Leary, who appeared for tho defence, lie refuted the suggestion that the cheque had been given to Daley as a loan. Mr. O'Leary intimated that the defence would be that the transaction was a bona fide one.

Both accused reserved their defence, and were committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Bail was allowed.