OPEN CHEQUE
STOLEN FROM HOUSE
Payment of an open cheque which ■had been stolen froin'a house in Ilid&iford street haying."rjeen stopped, Walter Thomas Gray Poscroft, an electrical engineer, aged 25, was taken in charge by the police when he attempted to cash it at a bank for £22 10s. , Ho appeared before Mr. E. Page, S.M., at.the Magistrate's Court yesterday,on a charge of'making- a false document, thereby cpmmitthig forgery, another of attempting t6 break ana enter the Self-Help Co-operative grocery store in Courto'nay place with intent to commit a crime, and a third of stealing two blankets valued ■at 10s, the property of the City ■ Mission. "With Foxcroft in the dock was Joseph Walter Maddock, a factory hand, aged 20, who was charged with breaking and'entering by day tho house of Edwin B. J.Daiiiql and,' stealing goods : valued nt £7 ,7s, and. with attempting to break and enter the. SelfEelp store. He was also charged with stealing three blankets, tho property of th<i Wellington City. Mission. The accused, pleaded" guilty to the indictable charges, and were committed., to tho. Supremo Court .for sen-, tencc. .■■-'■' . . - : The Magistrate said he.would adjourn the charges in. regard to the thei't of the blank-ets until after tho accused had been dealt with at tho Supreme Court. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 50, 27 August 1931, Page 15
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211OPEN CHEQUE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 50, 27 August 1931, Page 15
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