THEFT AND FORGERY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17227, 5 April 1930, Page 14

THEFT AND FORGERY

YOUTH OPENS LETTERS , Charges of theft and forgery were preferred against J. J. Martin, 20, a butcher, in the Magistrate'si Court in Masterton. There iwere six charges in all, respecting three cheques'drawn on the Hank of Now South Wales; the total amount involved was £25 4s (id. Accused pleaded guilty to all charges, and was committed to \the Supreme Court, Wellington, for sentence. In the course of his work delivering meat on the Lansdowne run, Sergeant Dyer said, accused had become friendly with the letter-carrier on the same run, and sometimes undertook delivery of letters in Gordon street. On "March 18 letters to P. Costello and To Tau had been given accused by the lettercarrier, but they had never reached their destination. Inquiries had been made, and it had been discovered that cheques in the letters concerned had been cashed. When interviewed by the police the accused had readily admitted his guilt, and had said that ho had cashed the cheques in order to obtain money for paying off accounts he had in the town. . .