“KNEW A GOOD THING”
LABOURER MAKES MONEY VARIETY OF CHARGES Press Association. WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Before Mr. E. Page, S.M., James Cullen, a labourer, aged 28, was charged on two counts of forging and uttering cheques to the value of £45, five of forgery involving £96, six of uttering cheques of a value of £124, one of the theft of £3 12s and one of obtaining goods by means of a valueless cheque. One witness said accused told him he was going to the races and would put £5 on a good thing he knew. That evening he said he had won £27 for witness and paid over the money by giving a cheque for £37. Witness gave £lO change, and afterwards, at accused’s request, another £5 far investment. A few days afterwards he went to bed, leaving the cheque book and money on a table and found next morning that it had been stolen. Another witness, a billiard saloon keeper, said he cashed a cheque for £l7 10s for accused and later found that it was valueless.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 274, 9 February 1928, Page 17
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