FATHER’S BANK BOOK

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1930, Page 3

FATHER’S BANK BOOK

FORGERY BY SON. [per press association.] CHRISTCHURCH, July 22. On twelve charges c: forging and one of theft, Auguste John Barbarel, an engineer, aged 25 yc .irs, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on forgery charge sentence on a theft charge being deferred. Barbarel had pleaded guilty. The facts were that Barbarel stole his 1 father-in-law’s Post Office Saying Bank book, and forged signatures to twelve withdrawal slips over a period of four months, obt ning in all £221. The father-in-la r, W. J. Fort, being unable to find-Oi’s bank book, reported his loss to th-o Post Office. There he learned that h’s account had been operated. A watch was then set for the forger. The evidence was that on the last occasion, a brother of the accused, Edgar Arthur Barbarel, a. labourer, aged 20 years, presented a withdrawal slip for £lO. He was detained and questioned, x - Edgar Arthur Barbarel was charged with attempting to utter a withdrawal receipt for £lO on the Post Office Savings Bank, knowing the receipt to be forged. He pleaded not guilty. He was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. According to the .statement of Auguste John Barbarel, to the police, he had given the last withdrawal slip to his brother to ca.sh.