P.O. BANK DEFRAUDED
TEMPTED BY LADY FRIEND. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 16. At the Police Court, Janies Ross Morris was charged with obtaining money from the Post Office Savings Bank at Auckland, by forging*a withdrawal slip. He banked nine pounds and put in a withdrawal slip for eight pounds, which was certified as not over eight pounds. He then altered the figures to 80, and the words to eighty. He said that he did this with the connivance of a lady friend to whom he said be gave £7O. He was attempting a similar trick at the Wellington P.O. Savings Bank, when he was arrested by Detective Bayliss, and charged with the forgery at Auckland.
He pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 July 1928, Page 5
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