ALLEGED FORCERIES
UNUSUAL CASES
MAN AND TWO WOMEN BEFORE
COURT
(Press Association)
WELLINGTON, April 11
A number of remarkable forgeries involving the impersonation by a woman of another •woman in order to provide security for raising loans and conspiracies to defraud, were revested in the Magistrate’s Court yes torday when David Hodges aged 45 years, a clerk, and two* women appeared; before Mr J. R. Luxiord S.M The hearing of. the charges occupied the court all day. With Phyllis Gladys Davis, a married woman, Hodges was charged with conspiracy to defraud people on two occasions of £55 and £l5O respectively. With Kathi’.een Jessie Alekna, a married woman, he was charged with conspiriicy to defraud tae Uni° n Bank of Australia of £350. Charges were also preferred against Hodges alone of forging a letter and obtaining by false pretences various small sums. The three charges of obtaining money on faf.se pretences against Hodges were l'emanded for hearing on April 17 until the indictable offences had been dealt with. Hodges and Davis pleaded: guilty on the remaining chargeq end were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, while Alekna p,.ended guilty, and twns committed to tlx® Supreme Court for trial.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12527, 12 April 1935, Page 7
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198ALLEGED FORCERIES Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12527, 12 April 1935, Page 7
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