FORGERY AND UTTERING

Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1933, Page 5

FORGERY AND UTTERING

MAN’S NEW PLYMOUTH PURCHASE COMMITTAL FOR SENTENCE. For forging and uttering a cheque for £lO 10s in January, 1931, Patrick Joseph Murphy, who yesterday appeared in the New Plymouth Court before Messrs. J. R. Hill and E. C. Hayton, justices of the peace, was convicted and committed to the Supreme Court at Auckland for 'Reward the end of 1930 Murphy worked for a sharemilker who was employed by Patrick Brophy. After leaving there he went to work for Mrs. Kate Lawn, Okato, during which time he purchased from Lightband, and Wann, New Plymouth, a motor-cycle on the lure purchase system. He later stayed for two weeks with Brophy m January, 1931. While there he stole a cheque book and filled in a form for the amount of £lO 10s and signed the name of Brophy .to it. This was tendered to the firm from which the cycle was purchased in payment of a £5 instalment and he received £5 10s as change. Murphy proceeded to Auckland on the cycle, which he placed in an Auckland garage and never called back for it. ... Murphy was arrested at Morrmsville on December 24 on another charge o forgery, and in the course of an interview Constable Heep had with him on January 9, Murphy admitted these facts. He was brought before the Court at Morrinsville and remanded to appear at New Plymouth, where he was first before the Court on January 14, and remanded. . j Detective Kearney represented the police and Murphy was unrepresented. When the evidence had been given he pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court at Auckland for sentence. .