FORGED WITHDRAWAL SLIPS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18626, 23 July 1930, Page 6

FORGED WITHDRAWAL SLIPS.

OPERATING ON FATHER-IN-LAWS ACCOUNT. By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, July 22. On twelve charges of forgery, and one of theft, Auguste John Barbarel (25). an engineer, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on the forgery charges. Sentence on the theft charge was deferred. Barbarel pleaded guilty. The facts were that Barbarel stole his father-in-law's Post Office savings bank book, and forged signatures to twelve withdrawal slips over a period of four months, obtaining in all £221. The father-in-law, W. J. Fort, was unable to find his bank book, and reported the loss to the Post Office. There he learned that the account had been operated. Watch was then set for the forger. Evidence was given that on the last occasion a brother of accused, Edgar Arthur Barbarel (20), a labourer, 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 a statement of Auguste John Barbarel to the police, he had given the last withdrawal slip to his brother to cash.