"ACCOMPLICES OR ?"

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7372, 25 January 1902, Page 4 (Supplement)

"ACCOMPLICES OR ?"

Pending Goudie's capture the police al 1 over the country were busily engaged ir tracing the forged cheques, and' soon hac" in their custody Dick Burge, the professional pugilist, and Thomas Francif Kelly, a "commission agent" of Brad ford, both of whom stand charged wit] knowingly having uttered cheques alleg ed to have been forged by Goudie. The> are also looking for Laurie Marks, <■ well-known turfite, who was stated t> have committed suicide on a Channe steamer, but whose death is certainly ; matter of doubt, and a party name' lames Mances. Regarding- Kelly anBurge, their defence Is that they tool the cheques in the ordinary way of bet ting business, and had no suspicion tha they were forgeries. And at this stag, this much can be said for Kelly: He gay the police every assistance in his powe f he moment he was informed by them o -he character of the cheques he had ha -hrough his hands, and gave himself v to them the moment he heard that j warrant was out against him. But nel-

ther he nor Burge is at present allowed

out on bail.

The total sum of Goudie's alleged forgeries is £169,500, which was drawn out of the bank by means of 27 cheques forged in the name of Mr R. W. Hudson. When Burge and Kelly were put into the dock last Monday, Mr Matthews gave an outline of the case against them. Of the seven-and-twenty cheques referred to, two affected Goudie alone. The next 12 cheques of the aggregate value of £23,300 formed an account opened by Goudie in an assumed name at Liverpool. Some of this money would be traced to Kelly. The next seven cheques (value £53,000) would be mainly traced in the first instance to Kelly and afterwards for division between Kelly and some other person not yet before the Court. In that way they had traced in the first instance to Kelly £78,500 obtained by the forgeries. The next batch .of cheques, six in number, , amounted to £91,000, and they had been traced in the first place to .a man named Marks, who had an account at the Credit Lyonnais. Five of these cheques were paid into this bank, and the sixth into the branch of the London and County Bank.