THEFT AND FORGERY
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
PALMERSTOiN N., This Day. At the Police Cour,t this morning, Robert Eollingson Simpson, a young man, was charged with theft of a cheque book and other articles, and also with the forgery of a cheque for £12. He pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence. The cheque book, etc., were the property of Ernest John Halford, a traveller, of Gisborne, who, with his family, in January last encamped at the Esplanade, Palmerston North. While he was absent the accused entered the tent and stole the property mentioned. Later he forged the cheque and uttered it to Waugh, a local tailor in payment of an account. For two' other charges of theft at Feilding and Palmerston North, the accused was sent to gaol for one month.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1927, Page 10
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137THEFT AND FORGERY Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1927, Page 10
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