FORGED CHEQUES.
MAN AND WIFE CHARGED.
A yotjxg married couple, Eva. and Lincoln. Tamer, appeared before Mr. F. V. Fraaer, S.M., at the Police Court yesterday, to answer a charge of having forged the name, of W. B. Nicholson to cheques involving the Bum of £82. It is stated that the accused were employed on a farm near Mercury Bay, and that prior to leaving the station they in some manner became possessed of a cheque book belonging to. their employer. If, is alleged that the male accused forged the name of W. B. Nicholson to a number of cheques, four of which were cashed by his wife. • Two of these cheques, of £5 and £7 respectively, are stated to have been cashed at Whitianga, and two others, involving amounta of £10 and £20, at the National Bank at Auckland. . Turner was remanded till Monday .next, bail being allowed in one.surety of £150, or two of £75 each. The female accused, who would be exonerated from any complicity, it was stated, by her hus* band's evidence, was merely ordered to report herself to the police daily.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15142, 5 November 1912, Page 5
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186FORGED CHEQUES. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15142, 5 November 1912, Page 5
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