ALLEGED LOSS OF LUGGAGE
CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION.
CHARGE OF FRAUD FOLLOWS.
[lii: TELEGRAPH.—I'EESS ASSOCIATION. ] NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday;
Described by counsel as a man rendered penniless and almost desperate through continual , sickness, Harry Walter Reid, farm labourer, pleaded guilty to-day to three charges, of forging and uttering a cheque for £4 at Levin, of attempting to defraud the Railway Department by making a bogus claim for £BO on account of alleged loss of checked luggage, and of stealing £3 10s, the property of a patient at. the New Plymouth Hospital. Evidence on the first charge; was heard and accused was committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence. An order was made removing the hearing of the second charge to Palmerston North. On the third charge accused elected to bo dealt-with summarily, but the magistrate reserved judgment, pending the hearing of the second charge and tho delivery of judgment on this and the first clinrge.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19416, 26 August 1926, Page 12
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155ALLEGED LOSS OF LUGGAGE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19416, 26 August 1926, Page 12
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