FORGING AND UTTERING.
A FARMER’S LAPSE. HAWERA, March 16. His drinking habits were alleged to be responsible for his conduct, when Harold Middleton Lee, a farmer, aged 40, to-day pleaded guilty before justices of the peace and was committed for sentence on two cha fes of forgery and uttering, and also to a third charge of attempting to pass a valueless cheque. The accused admitted forging the name of a well-known- farmer named James Winks to three cheques for £B, £9 Is, and £3, Goods and cash were secured to the full value of the latter two from different clothiers. When questioned concerning the cheque for £8 he agreed to have it submitted to the bank, and returning in the afternoon ..for the change he found the police waiting to arrest him.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3862, 20 March 1928, Page 18
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132FORGING AND UTTERING. Otago Witness, Issue 3862, 20 March 1928, Page 18
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