CHARGE OF FORGERY.
YOUNG MAN CHARGED.- : ' (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 7. 'I At the Police Court a young man named’ Eric John Mercer pleaded not guilty to a« charge of forgery and uttering, and was > committed for trial. 1 Tho evidence showed that accused had’arranged to purchase a motor car for £520, giving a cheque for that amount and signing his uncle’s nsjne. The manager of the motor company said* that it was understood that accused was not to have the car until witness found’ whether the cheque would be met. l 1 In a statement to a detective, Mercer-, admitted that he took four cheque forms ' from his uncle’s house at Raglan, and, coming to Auckland, he wrote a chequb : for £520, knowing it would not be cashed. ' lie wanted to make his friends believe’; ho was a man of means. ■’•! On ti charge of forgery and uttering a.' cheque for £4 at Te Awamutu, Meroer was remanded to appear there on July 15.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19218, 8 July 1924, Page 9
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