TWO MEN FOR TRIAL

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 58, 6 September 1934, Page 10

TWO MEN FOR TRIAL

FALSE PAY-SHEET CHARGES

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

INVERCARGILL, This Day.

Further charges of making false pay sheets were .preferred against ; Charles Msirtiu Todd and Cecil Lawrence Gilbertson, formerly employed in the office 'of 'the Southland County; Council; -in tho Magistrate's Court yesterday* The accused pleaded not guilty, and were committed'for .trial at the* next sitting of the Supremo Court at-Invercargill. Bail was allowed, with a. proviso that each of tlie, accused report daily to thepolice. ■ : ... . ■ -.'.'■ '-, : vGilbertson ' and Tocld • Were jointly charged with the, theft between: December -14' and December 23,. 1933, of &i Ss 9d, the property of the council; aiul,. further,: on five counts: with' making false pay sheets'purporting to be signed by James W. Fenton, the offences allegedly taking place . during December, •1933. Todd was charged with the theft on April; 14, 1933, while, a servant of; the .council, of a sum of £52 19s 2d, and was further remanded for a fortnight. ■ ■ .■•■■• i Gilbertsoiv pleaded. :.guilty : to 14. counts of theft as a servant of the County- Council,- the.total amount involved being' £16 lls. 9d, and also to 14 charges of forging the pay sheets in respect of each amount, it being alleged1 that the name A. E. Dowdall was used on' the ■ sheets, -with intent that the signature bo acted upon as if it were genuine. He was remanded to the Supremo Court for sentence. .■'.-. ;