RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, TIMARU.

Timaru Herald, Volume XV, Issue 661, 27 September 1871, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, TIMARU.

Tuesday, Septembeb 26, 1871. [Belore B. Woollcombe, Esq., X.M] FOBGEET AND *ffTTBBISO. Andrew Samuel Creamore was brought up on remand from Friday the 22nd instant, on *a charge of forgiug and uttering a cheque for Alison McKay : 1 keep a boarding-house m Timaru. My husband's name iB Robert McKay. I know the prisoner. He has been staying at my house the early part of this month as a boarder. He owed mci £3' for board, and I asked him for it. I received the cheque produced to take my account. out of it. on Saturday. uight. Ho e'udoi-Sed the cheque mmy presence. He told me he had received the cheque fromi Mr Young, ofthe Wailii Grossing. I sent it by my brother to get it cashed. He came baok and said he could- notget it cashed. I weut to the Bauk of New Zealand on the following Monday morning. I was told that Mi- Young did not bank at that bank. I presented it theu to the Union Bank. I was told by the manager that it •was not Mr Young's signature. ' Prisoner told me on Mouday morning that I need not 'present the cheque, as he had stopped it: ' ' Gross-examined by prisoner : The, prisoner told me that hei had beeu m Munro'a Btore and other places and had tried to cash the" cheque, but could net. Tbia was on Saturday eveuing. I said if he gave it to me I would get it changed at Cullmann's, as Jl owed him a bill. I told him that the publican where J had gone to ohange the cheque had iaid he . did not think it was Young's handwriting. Asked prisouer if he was sure the cheque was right. He replied, " yes ; of course it is quite . right." When I showed him a mistake m the date (he having told me that Mr Young had drawn it out ou Saturday) he said, " I don't kuow how that could be ; .Mr Youug muat have made a> mistake ; I mußt see him about it." On Monday morning prisoner told me that he had been to the Bank and stopped the cheque. Don't recollect him asking; me . to return him the cheque. Ou Monday night ho gave me £2. I told him if he would pay, me tho other £1 which he owed' me, I would give him back the cheque. . He said " The ,£1 is duo to-morrowj and I will pay it to-mor-row. :•,.•■-.,- Robort Waugh i. I am a laborer, residing m Timai-u. lam a brother of the last witness. I am staying at her house.: Prisoner* wks staying there alsc). I was m the house on Saturday eveniugi the 9th . instant, r , J, ,saw prisoner give Mrs (McKay a cheqUo' on ihat occasion. Mrs MdKay. gave me the cheque after, and asked ma to got it changed.- -I J went into Melton's. He. said he would ddsh'i it if I endorsed it, and was going to give me ' change, but on looking at the date' ofvthe ' £10 cheque, said he did not think it waa Mr Young's handwriting. I then took it hack; I aud returned it to Mrs McKay. William Willis : lam a sergeant qf police, ' stationed at Timaru. I arrested the prisoner I on the 12th instant. He said the. oheque waa ■ correot as far as he Waa concerned ; he got it from Mr Young, of the Waihi grossing, for! I bringing goods to Lyttelton when m the * Bteamer. Cheque produced I got from Mrs * t McKay. John Albert Young : lam a publiian, tt < the Waihi Crossing. I do not know the ' prisoner. I never issued tho cheque produced; I it is not my handwriting. I have no account '** at the Bank of JNew Zealand, Timaru. J l t know of no other J. A. Young m the district; Prisoner, who said he did uot wish to say I > n thing against the charge, waa committed 1 for trial at the next sitting of the Distriot Court at Timaru, 1 There were no civil caaea set down fori t hearing. 1 1