FORGERY ADMITTED
TROUBLE ABOUT CAR
YOUNG MAN'S DIFFICULTIES-
lii a statement..which- he made to Detective W. E. Murray, a young man, James Carruthcrs Black, said that he had bought a. car from Inglis Bros., paying £50 down, and signing promissory notes to pay the balance at the rate of £7 9s 4d a month. He admitted that after he had paid his board he had £1 15s a week left, so that even if he spent no other money he would barely have enough to meetl the payments each month.. He > was then put off from his employment on account of slackness, and he immediately got into difficulties over tho payments. - According to Black, it was primarily these difficulties which led to his ap-' pearanee before Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day charged with obtaining £90 from Alfred William Weine by. means of .false pretences, and with forging a receipt for £7 9s 4d by altering it to £70 9s 4d, thus causing Weino to act upon it as genuine. ■. ": ' ' '.. .. • ■ -, Alfred William .Weine, in evidence, said that as a result of replying to an advertisement from the accused, he had two trial" runs in a, motor-car which the accused said was his own. At the' conclusion of these he offered Black £90 for. the car, which was_ accepted. As a reason for selling the accused said that he wanted some ready cash for a business he. was;'a partner in. at Eastbourne. The accused ■ assured 'witness that everything in respect of the previous ownership and .insurance of the car was in order, and showed witness some receipts which went to show that the car-?was the accused's own property. It was this', that caused the..wit-, ness to land over his £90 and take delivery of the car. He now found that he ha.d to pay the previous. owners of the car, Inglis Bros., the; balance owing on the car, £60, or else they , would seize.. the. car. ■ .-.: ...*. :- At the conclusion of the evidence, the, accused pleaded guilty, and was | committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. . '.....
FORGERY ADMITTED
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1930, Page 13
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