UTTERING NOTES DENIED
CIRCULATION IN AUCKLAND
FOUR MEN FACING ACCUSATION.
JURYMEN UNABLE TO AGREE.
By Telegraph.—Preas Association.
Auckland, Last Night.
The hearing of a series of charges arising out oi the circulation of a number of forged Bank of New South Wales £1 notes in April was concluded in the Supreme Court to-night. Maurice Goodman, aged 42, Percy Short, aged 51, Percy John McKenzie Short, aged 20, and Harry Torpy, aged 46, were charged with conspiring together to defraud the 'public by uttering forged bank notes, and on five counts with uttering forged bank notes at Otahuhu, Papakura and Huntly. . The Crown’s case was that 120 forged notes were circulated, and it was alleged some of these were uttered by the accused at various places during a motor trip from Auckland to Hamilton.
The defence was a denial that the accused uttered the notes, the evidence of Crown witnesses regarding their identity being challenged. The jury after a retirement of 44 hours failed to agree md a new trial was ordered.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1931, Page 9
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