FORGERY CHARGES
AGAINST AUSTRALIAN OFFICER-,
SYDNEY, 31st January.
Lieut. Howell Price has been remanded, without bail, on six further charges of uttering forged bills of exchange. The amount involved approximates £60,000.
[Howell Price was remanded on 23rd January on a charge..of knowingly claiming the pay of Lieut. Downes during November, 1915, while he was lieut.-, adjutant of the Light.Horse. The police prosecutor stated that he understood accused was lieutenant-adjutant of the 9th Light Horse from April to July, 1915, and he was alleged to have submitted claims for pay for the whole unit from the time [ of demobilisation till the following November. He drew money which allegedly approximated to £50,000. He left the Defence Force in September last medically unfit. There was a suggestion that-he had not disposed of all the money he obtained. Counsel for the defence aske3 for and obtained bail in the amount of £3000. The accused was shortly after re-arrested on a charge of forging and uttering two. cheques for £1000 each.]
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 28, 1 February 1917, Page 7
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