VALUELESS CHEQUE
"Both these men have previous convictions involving dishonesty; I propose to sentence each of them to three months' imprisonment," said Mr. E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court today, after Albert Henry O'Malley, a labourer, aged 39, and John Ives O'Shea, a traveller, aged 40, had pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining £1 4s in money and a pair of stockings by means of a valueless cheque for £10 7s. Detective-Sergeant Re veil said that on May 24 O'Malley presented a cheque to a Mr. Bealey in payment for a pair of stockings valued at 5s lOd. Mr. Bealey did. not have sufficient change . and gave him 245. When the cheque was sent to the bank it was found that there was' no account to meet it. It was subsequently by Detectives Robinsou and Campin that O'Malley had borrowed a cheque form and that it had been filled in by O'Shea for £16 7s. Both the accused were on .a drinking bout when the offence was committed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 130, 5 June 1933, Page 11
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216VALUELESS CHEQUE Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 130, 5 June 1933, Page 11
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