EX-POLICE FORGER
BENEFACTOR’S ACCOUNT USED. LONDON, December 13. . How a woman befriended an ex-po-liceman and his wife, gave them work in her house, and returned from a holiday to find her account overdrawn with forged cheques, was described at Marylebone yesterday. Hector McClean Smith, 28, engineer, of Diepper.treet, Fulham, pleaded guilty to forging the cheques. The total amount was ,£34. Mr. Hy. Elam, prosecuting for the bank, said Mrs. Olive Reinganum, of Gloucester-terrace, Hyde Park, found work for accused and his wife in her house. In August she went to Scotland, leaving her cheque-book on a writing table. Ou her return she found cheques had been forged and cashed with tradespeople. Detective-sergeant Stevens said the accused served for two and a half years in the Glasgow Police Force, and was asked to resign. Last year he was fined for shoplifting. The accused pleaded that he had been gambling and was in debt when he forged and cashed the cheques. Ho was very osrry because Mrs. Reinganum had been very good to him. He was sentenced to six months’ hard labour.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 February 1934, Page 6
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