LATER DETAILS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXII, Issue 272, 24 November 1898, Page 3

LATER DETAILS.

A CHARGE OF FORGERY. CONFESSION OF GAMBLING. WELLINGTON, November 23. The information against Myers is for forgery, which is an extraditable offence. The amount involved is i.380. Both local papers received letters from him to-day, bearing this moinitg'apes'.-mark, in which he blames his pission lor gambling and abuses the bookmakers as the cause of bis nun' He sta'es that his family had already ,p«id as much as £1 (XX) to free him, bnt' tbe passion was too strong and he always returned to bis old vice, till a', last ha had swindled his frieods out of ttou■anda, and now hs had (tone where co harm can reach These letters apparct. tly were left behind with someone, who posted them here. Among Myers' victims is a widow, who is a sufferer to the extent ot nearly *. lO.'J. His tales to induce acquaintance to cash cheques before he left were eitrcmely plausible, and apparently very effective. CLEVER FORGERIES ALLEGED. WELLINGTON, Thiß day. Two fresh warrants were taken out against Myers to-day by loan companies who hold forged bills. Another man discounted a bill for .£409 to which the signature of a well-known merchant had been ■o cleverly forged that it wm passed by the bank as genuine, and the merchant himself thought the signature was his own.