THEFT TO PAY FINE.
CREAM CHEQUE STOLEN.
YOUNG MAN WHO " SPEEDED."
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN. CORRESPONDENT.] PUEEKOHE, Thursday. A young man, 19 years of age, whose name was suppressed, pleaded guilty in the Pukekohe Police Court to-day, before Messrs. F. Perkins and J. Patterson, justices, to a charge of the theft on January 21 of a letter containing a cheque for £lO 9s 7d,. and of forging an endorsement to the cheque, and cashing it. In a statement to the police, accused said he took the letter from a roadside mailbox. He knew it contained a cheque for the past month's cream for a dairy farmer, whom he had just been visiting. He hired a taxi and went'the same afternoon to Papakura, where he forged an endorsement and cashed the cheque. Accused had been fined £2 18s for speeding on a motor-cycle, and, being unable to pay the fine, was to have gone to prison on the day the theft occurred. , He paid the fine without delay from the proceeds of the cheque. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19879, 24 February 1928, Page 13
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