REMARKABLE FORGERIES
COURT CASE REVELATIONS
WOMAN IMPERSONATES ANOTHER.
SECURITY FOR RAISING OF LOANS.
CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY HEARD.
By Telegraph—Press Association.
Wellington, Last Night.
A number of remarkable forgeries, involving impersonation by a woman of another woman in order to provide security for raising loans, and conspiracies to defraud were revealed in the Magistrate’s Court to-day when David Hodges, aged 45 years, a clerk, and two women appeared before Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M. The hearing of the charges occupied the Court all day. With Phyllis Gladys Davis, a married woman, Hodges was charged with conspiracy to defraud -people on two occasions of £55 and £l5O respectively. With Kathleen Jessie Alekna,. a married woman, he was charged with conspiracy to defraud the Union Bank of Australia of £350. Charges were also preferred against Hodges alone of forging a letter and obtaining by false, pretence various small sums. The three charges of obtaining money on false pretences against Hodges were remanded for hearing on April 17 until the indictable offences had been dealt with. Hodges and Davis pleaded guilty on the remaining charges and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, while Alekna pleaded not guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 April 1935, Page 7
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