COURTS AND OFFENCES.
THEFT AND FORGERY'. (BY TfcfjKGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATIONY PALMERSTON N., March 12. At the Police Court this morning, Robert Rollingson Simpson, a young man, was charged with the theft of a cheque book and other articles, also with the forgery of a cheque for £l2. He pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence. The cheque book, etc., were the property of Ernest John Halford, a traveller, of Gisborne, who, with 'his family in January last, encamped at the esplanade, Palmerston North. While absent the accused entered the tent and stole the property mentioned, later forging a cheque and uttering the same to Mr Waugh, a local tailor, in payment of an account. It was when the accused was arrested on another charge that the stolen property was found on (him. On two other charges of theft at Feilding and Palmerston North the accused was sent to prison for one month.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 March 1927, Page 9
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158COURTS AND OFFENCES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 March 1927, Page 9
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