A CLERK'S FORGERIES.
FIVE YEARS' IMPRISONMENT.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Heed. 5.38 p.m.) LONDON, May 10.
David Chalmers Anderson, on a charge of uttering forged documents involving £59.000. was sentenced to five years' penal servitude.
Anderson, who was a Scottish minister's son, was employed by a rich old man, John Wilson, to manage his affairs on a salary of 30s a week. _ Wilson died as;ed 92 years, and according to his doctors he was nearly blind, and was in a state of senilitv. "it was alleged that documents relating to the transfer of Wilson's smr> bore a signature not Wilson's. An Edinburgh h'nkmaker said that Anderson lost £1000 in bets at Ascot. Later he visited America, and subsequently Anderson told him that he had bontfht a d?nce hall for £50.001. A nenhew of Wilson stated that he thoucht that aoart from his salarv Anderson had not a farthing in the world. He was surprised to learn tna-t nad bought a house and a motor-car.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18396, 11 May 1923, Page 7
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