ADMISSION OF FORGERY
FATHER-IN-LAW SUFFERS YOUNG MAN TAKES BANK BOOK. SUM OF OVER £2OO WITHDRAWN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. On twelve charges of forgery Auguste John Barbarel, engineer, aged 25, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, and sentence on a theft charge was deferred. Barbarel had pleaded guilty. The facts were that Barbarel stole his father-in-law’s post office savings bank book and forged signatures to 12 withdrawal slips over a period of four months, obtaining in all £221. His father-in-law, W. J. Fort, being unable to find his bank book, reported the loss to the post office and there learned that the account had been operated on, A watch was then set for the forger.
Evidence was that on the last occasion a brother of the accused, Edgar Arthur Barbarel, labourer, aged, 20, presented a withdrawal slip for £lO. He was detained and questioned. Edgar Arthur Barbarel was charged with attempting to utter a withdrawal receipt for £lO on. the post office savings bank knowing the receipt to be forged. He pleaded not guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial.
According to the statement of Auguste John Barbarel to the police, he had. given the last withdrawal slip to his brother to.cash,
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1930, Page 11
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