FORGERY AND UTTERING

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 144, 20 June 1928, Page 4

FORGERY AND UTTERING

LABOURER PLEADS GUILTY Two charges of forging, cheques and. two of littering them' were..admitted.by. a labourer, .William John Thomas Wliai-' ley, aged 36, in the Magistrate's Court to-day. The: amount involved was £24 Is. The licensee of tho City Hotci said that on _th April Whaliey came to his hotel and stated that ho had been sent 'by the licensee of tho Cambridge Hotel, aiid asked him. to cash a cheque for £0 14s. - Witness gave Whaliey tho money. Wlfen.. the cheque., was later presented at tho bank, it .was returned, marked "no account." , , Acting-Detective Kearney,, wbo^in- ' terviewed Whaliey,- said the accused stated that ho found a'cheque book with two cheque forms in it in Palmerston North. He retained the book, and when ho issued tho cheques he put the'first signature on them that came into his'he'adUJ -. The Magistrate (Mr. E. Page, S.M.) committed the. accused to the Supreme Court for sentence. ' ■' ■■' -.'; ' Whaliey-also pleaded guilty to • .obtaining £14' 7s at Port Awanui by means of a valueless cheque, and to the theft of a pair of binoculars and a tent end. v On the application of Mr.. A. J. Mazemgarb, who appeared for.Whalloj', the hearing of the charges was adjourned sine die. '■.'•■