FORGERY ALLEGED
EXHIBIT IN BANKRUPTCY CASE [United Press Association] j DUNEDIN, 19th August. I An order that exhibits in a petit iois for the adjudication as a bankrupt of j Robert S. Wilson, formerly of Dunedin but now of Wellington, be impounded and made available to the police waft made by his Honour Mr Justice Smith. During the hearing it was alleged by •Mrs Nellie Ada Brown, the petitioner, that a document of compromise pro- , duced by the debtor, was a forgery, the signature being an exact tracing of a signature she made six years earlier in giving the debtor a testimonial In allowing withdrawal of the petition. the debtor having paid out the amount, his Honour stated that the agreements put forward by the debtor were atacked as forgeries and on the evidence he had come to the conclusion that the onus had shifted to the debtor to show that they were genuine which onus he had not discharged. The evidence did not point to any particular person as author of the forgery but he thought the police should have an opportunity to consider the matter.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 21 August 1939, Page 2
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187FORGERY ALLEGED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 21 August 1939, Page 2
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