MORE EVIDENCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23040, 18 May 1938, Page 20

MORE EVIDENCE

SUPREME COURT TRIAL THEFT AND FRAUD ALLEGED SECOND DAY OF HEARING Further evidence in a ease in -which Trevor George Bain, warehouseman, aged 31, is appearing on 32 charge* involving theft and fraud was heard beforo ]\lr. Justice Fair in the Supreme Court yesterday. Thirteen charges alleged that accused had received sums of money, totalling £75 10s Bd, on terms requiring him to account for them to Briscoe and Company, Limited, and had fraudulently omitted to do so, thereby committing theft. Alternative charges of theft were preferred in each case. In addition, accused was charged on three counts with being a servant of the same company and altering stock-sheets with intent to defraud, and alternatively in each case with forging the stock-sheets by making material alterations. Mr. V. 11. Meredith conducted the case for the Crown, and the accused, who pleaded not guilty, was represented by Mr. Sullivan, with him Mr. Aekins. Alary Ellen Edwards, a clerk in Briscoe and Company's tyre department, of which accused was in charge, said that after stock-taking in March, 1936, accused said mistakes in the counts had been made by the representative of the agency whoso tyres Briscoe's handled. Accused instructed witness to alter the counts in one or two cases and she had, accordingly done go. She had been given no instructions in this matter by the agency representative. On a stocksheet produced witness identified further alterations, these being made in accused's handwriting. Witness also gave evidence of a later stock-taking in September, 1936, and indicated alterations in stock-sheets in accused's writing. She had made a search in connection with delivery dockets and had found a lot for tyres that hail gone out. There were rio invoices. Extensive evidence relating to dockets and other papers produced was given, til is being subjected to long crossexamination by Mr. Sullivan. The case for the Crown was not finished when the Court rose until this morning.