OLD MAN DEFRAUDED
FIVE YEARS FOR FORGERY.
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LONDON, 10th May. David Chalmers Anderson, charged with uttering forged documents, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude:
Anderson, who is a Scottish minister's son, was declared to have been employed by a rich old man, John Wilson, to manage his affairs a» a wage of 30s per week. Wilson died at th« age of 92 years, and, according to doctors, was nearly blind and in a state of 6enility. Anderson was chaTged at Glasgow with uttering forged documents involving £50,000. It waß 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 that Anderson lost £1000 in beta on the Ascot race meeting, and later visited America. Anderson told him that he had bought a dance hall for £60,000.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 111, 11 May 1923, Page 7
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149OLD MAN DEFRAUDED Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 111, 11 May 1923, Page 7
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