MANY CHEQUE FRAUDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19891, 9 March 1928, Page 12

MANY CHEQUE FRAUDS.

iTWO MEN - PLEAD GUILTY.

[ LARGE AMOUNT INVOLVED.

I ESCAPED PRISONER'S CRIMES. (

Extensive frauds with valueless cheques vere cleared up- in the Police Court yesterday, when William Scholes, aged 37,, and Edwin Andrew- Simpion, ' aged 29 | (Mr. Gregory), pleaded guilty to 17 charges of obtaining by false pretences goods and money to the total value of about £125. They were also charged jointly with attempting to obtain £7 with s valueless cheque. Scholes was alone charged with" escaping from custody on Julv 27, 1927, with obtaining U9 10s with three valueless cheques, and witn theft of a cheque-book., V«r. . Evidence jW>giv6tt.sy- ; a number otshopkeepers -v wlio accepted >alueles.» cheques ~ from ono or other oi the offenders The usual procedure was for an order to be placed for goods m respect to which a cheque requiring , change in cash-would be ten.tlered._ It was found iwrft "not-Hcnown st the addrasses to which the goods were delivered. «• • , IV sUtfd Sdiolcs was con-, dieted on' nine charges of _ Ittlso' pretence# in. Ghristchurch last July, and was sent Korth under escort to servo two years imprisonment in Mount Eden Gaol. He escaped from the train during a stoppage after passing Mercer on July 27. Iho recapture was effected on February 24 at. a house in Taylor Street, Morningside. Simpson had been apprehended on the tame day %vhile attempting to pass a Valueless cheque. Detective Knight said both accused had ; given every assistance in connecting *up the numerous offences.

Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., in committing both men to the Supreme Court lor sentence, refused an application for bail for Simpson.