ALLEGED FORGERY
LABOUR DEFENCE LEAGUE SECRETARY ON TRIAL. A PLEA OF NOT GUILTY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Oct. 27. Pleading not guilty to seven charges of forgery and seven of uttering, Herbert Edwin Barnsley, aged 52, an accountant, a relief worker and late secretary and treasurer to the Labour Defence League, faced his trial this morning before Mr Justice Ostler and a jury. It was alleged that Barnsley had accepted money from the Mayor’s relief fund for distribution to dependents of men imprisoned as a result of the disturbances in May, and that he had forged the signatures of seven women without giving them their money (3/- in each case) and returned the forged receipts of the City Council, tendering them as genuine receipts. (Proceeding.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 268, 27 October 1932, Page 7
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