TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21365, 19 June 1931, Page 10

TELEGRAMS

(Peb United Pbess Association.) AUCKLAND, June 18. Pehcival John Scantlebury, solicitor, aged 45, was arrested on _ a charge _of making a false document in connection with his trust account. He was remanded till July 2 on bail, and was ordered to report to the police daily. HAMILTON, June 18. In the Supreme Court to-day Thomas Reginald Green, aged 49, a labourer, charged with forging a telegram at Huutly. received six months’ imprisonment. The evidence showed that Green forged a telegram, addressing it in the name of his father, to a Mrs A. W. Beale, Carterton, requesting that £5 be sent him urgently at Hamilton. WELLINGTON. June 18. Having pleaded guilty to being found in possession of a plug of gelignite and two detonators without lawful, proper, and sufficient excuse, John Henry Morgan, aged 48, a labourer, was to-day sent by Mr E. Page, S.M., for two raonthgs to prison. The police mentioned that they had been informed, rightly or wrongly, that the accused w r as the man who had supplied explosives to another man, who was before the court last week. TIMARU, June 18. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, John William Roundhill, poultry farmer, of Fairlie, was committed for trial on a charge of having sent a _ threatening letter to John Kennedy, chairman of the South Cantei-bury Power Board. The offending words were: “We pledge ourselves to see that you both arc removed out of harm’s way, either by knife or Mexican medicine.”