DYING MAN’S NAME

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11826, 6 January 1933, Page 3

DYING MAN’S NAME

DESPICABLE FORGERY

Stated to have forged the name of his father-in-law. who was dying in 1 < spiral from cancer. ( hu' !••.< He." uni Russell, aged 31 a London accountant, was sentenced at the Old Bailey recent 1\- to 17 months' imprisonment in the second division.

Prosecuting counsel said that Mr. David Robert Brunning. Russell'.-; fa thor-in-law. had worked with the London and North-Kasiei'n Railway, and had saved Koine money. which he had invested ihrough the Pest Office. He made a will in August lasi, leaving Ids property to his wife, and Russell witnessed if. Sim ell y hefnre Air. Brnnning's death Russell forged the former's name on documents and withdrew :C'P-0 from the Tost Office. Tie admitted thai mosf of the money was spent: ■on dog racing. Tn other cases, if was alleged, ho ohja,ined money, and endeavoured io obtain oilier money h\- forging the name of Mrs. Bnmning. 'ldle Recorder. c ’ : - Ernest ild. said that Airs. Brurming had been left with £7.;0. the hard-earned savings of a life of industry on her himhand's part. By a series of forgeries Bussell had set himself io become possessed of at least a third of file monav.