MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 255, 25 September 1935, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

CHARGES AT CHRISTCHURCH. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 24. Charges of forging and uttering a Post Office Savings Bank withdrawal receipt for £SO were preferred against a domestic, aged 21, who appeared in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. She was said to have forged a withdrawal slip in the name of Lillian May Haughey. Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., ordered her name to be suppressed. Accused pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence. Immediately after the girl’s case had been heard, Hugh Francis Haughey, pastrycook, aged 23, was charged with stealing £SO, the property of the Postmaster-General, and with receiving £SO, knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained. Haughey pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial. Detective Harding said that he had asked the female accused about her relations with Haughey and asked her for a sample of her handwriting. She later admitted forging the receipt and said she had been full of remorse since. In a statement, accused said she knew Haughey and had frequently been to his home. In July last, the statement continued, Haughey started to ask her for money and she gave him £l6 in three instalments. She asked for it back, but Haughey put her off. Haughey told her that his sister had money in the Post Office and if he could got it he would be able to pay her back. Haughey said he was coming to Dunedin, continued accused’s statement. He said he would get his sister s bank book and she (accused) could get the money out. She refused at first, but then agreed. Haughey gave her the book. All she cashed was a receipt for £SO, receiving nine £5 notes and five £1 notes. She asked Haughey for her £l6 and he said he would give it to her that evening but he never came.

The female accused pleaded guilty to each charge and was committed for sentence.