FORGERY AND FALSE PRETENCES
A MARRIED WOMAN CHARGED. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND. January 15. Ellen Elizabeth Elliott, aged 26 years, was committed for sentence on charges of the forgery of her husband’s name in respect of the withdrawals of sums totalling £250 from the Post Office Savings Bank, and also having used a counterfeit impression stamp of the Newton Savings Bank branch for making an entry in a bank book by altering (ho amounts of deposits, and further with having obtained from business men £43 by falsely representing that the was a widow. As regards the last mentioned case accused gave a bill of sale over her sister-in-law’s furniture and piano. In regard to the withdrawals she represented that her husband was ill, and she got people to witness the signature. Accused alleged that a man made the stamp without asking what it was for.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18762, 16 January 1923, Page 4
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146FORGERY AND FALSE PRETENCES Otago Daily Times, Issue 18762, 16 January 1923, Page 4
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