FORGERY OF RECEIPTS
relief fund money THREE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT [BY telegraph—press association] CHRISTCHURCH, FrirUy Having been founrl guilty of seven charges of forgery and seven of uttering, Herbert Edwin Barnsley, aged 52, an accountant and relief worker, late secretary and treasurer to the Labour Defonce League', whs sentenced to three months' imprisonment. During the trial it was stated that Barnsley had accepted money from the Mayor's relief fund for distribution to the dependants of men imprisoned as a result of the disturbances in May and had forged the signatures of seven women without giving them their money, 3s in each case, and that ho returned the forged receipts to the City Council, rendering them as genuine.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 12
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116FORGERY OF RECEIPTS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 12
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