BANK RECEIPT FORGED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22223, 25 September 1935, Page 17

BANK RECEIPT FORGED

YOUNG WOMAN'S OFFENCE THEFT CHARGE AGAINST MAN [BT TELEGRAPH —PRF.SS ASSOCIATION | CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday Charges of forging and uttering a Po?;t Office Savings Bank withdrawal receipt for £SO were preferred against a domestic, aged 21, in the Police Court to-day. She was said to have forged a withdrawal slip in the name of Lilian May Haughey. The magistrate, Mr E. C. Levvey, ordered the name of accused, who pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, to be suppressed. Immediately after the girl's case had been heard Hugh Francis Haughey, a pastrycook, aged 23, was charged with stealing £SO, the property of the Post-master-General, and with receiving £SO knowing it to be dishonestly obtained. He pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial. Detective Harding said that he had asked the female accused about her relations with Haughey, and had asked her for a sample of her handwriting. She later admitted forging the receipt and said she had been full of remorse since. In a statement the female accused said she knew Haughey, and had frequently been to his home. Last July, the statement continued, Haughey asked her for money, and she gave him £l6 in three instalments. She asked for it back, but Haughey put her* off. Haughey told her that his sister hnfl money in the Post Office Savings Bank and that if he could get it he would be able to pay her back. Haughey said he was going to Dunedin, continued the female accused's statement. He said he would get his sister's bank book, and she (accused) could withdraw the money. She resisted at first, but then agreed. Haughey gave her the book and she cashed a receipt for £SO, receiving nine £5 notes and five £1 notes. She asked Haughey for her £l6 and he said he would give it to her that evening, but he never came.