BANK DEFRAUDED
Young Man Arrested On Forgery Charge SMART POLICE WORK (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, June 8. Following the bunk fraul reported on Saturday (See page !)), James Alexander Fleming, aged 26, appeared in the Police Court this morning charged with obtaining £834 16/8 by a forged bill of exchange. He was remanded for seven days. Further particulars showed that the girl, who innocently presented the order, too kit, on instructions, to u taxi company office, which in turn had been instructed to take tho bag to Cavendish Chambers, leaving it just inside the main doorway, where it would be picked up. (juito unconscious of its e““tents the taximan so left it. Evidently tho forger, having watched his unwitting accomplice leave tho bank, hud then hurried to Cavendish Chambers to watch for the deposit of the bag.
The police traced the course of tho money and effected an arrest of the suspect in seven hours.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 148, 8 June 1936, Page 7
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