A COUPLE’S BAD START.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 62, 6 November 1912, Page 3

A COUPLE’S BAD START.

ALLEGED FORGERY

A young married couple named Lincoln and Eva Turner were before Mr F. V. Fraser, S.M., at Auckland, on Monday morning, charged that they forged the name of Mr W. 13. Nicholson to cheques on the National Bank and cashed same. The two accused were recently working, as married couple, on Mr Nicholson’s station, and left in September. After their departure a cheque book was missed, but Mr Nicholson suspected nothing till he went to the bank to draw some money, and found that nothing was left in the account, someone else having drawn freely on it. This resulted in the arrest on Saturday of the Turners. The young man made a confession, stating that while he was on the station he found the’ cheque book, and after he left he Idled in three cheques for £2O, one for £lO, one for £7, and one for £5, signing Mr Nicholson’s name and making the money payable to J. J. E. Turner. He cashed the £7 and the £5 cheques at stores in Whitianga, and when they came on to Auckland he cashed one of the £2O cheques with Laidlaw, Leeds. Later, he cashed two of the remaining three cheques at the bank, while bus wife cashed the other at the same place. He added that his w;fe whs not aware that the cheques were for-

genes. Accused were remanded till Friday. The wife, who has an infant seven months old to look after; was allowed her liberty meantime, provided she reports daily to the police.