RACE TICKET
FORGED APPLICATIONS. , [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, August 8. The forgery of the signatures of Hon. R. McCallum, M.L.C., and Frank Langstone, M.P., in an attempt to obtain complimentary tickets to the Canterbury Jockey Club’s last Easter meeting brought a salesman into the Magistrate’s Court on two charges of false pretences. ' The Secretary to the Jockey Club, F. T. H. Bell, had’ received two letters on April 18, purporting to have come from Messrs McQallum and Langstone, asking for race tickets. He issued one lot of tickets, and was suspicious when he noticed that a second request was signed in the same handwriting and on the same kind of paper as the first.
The accused was Edgar James Wilson. He was convicted, fined 20/-, and was ordered to pay expenses £5 0/9.
Both Mr McCallum and Mr Langstone gave evidence denying that they had signed the letters, or given authority for them, and' further evidence wp.s given by R. J. G. Collins, handwriting expert, who said that Wilson’s writing and that of the person who had forged the names of Messrs McCallum' and Langstone were identical.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1935, Page 4
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