THEFT OF A CHEQUE.
YOUNG MAN’S LAPSE. AUCKLAND, Monday. The story of a young farm labourer. Clifford Nelson Double, who went for the mail on a wet day and, on finding that one of his employer’s letters was open, through being damp, stole it. because it contained a cheque. was told to Mr J. W. Poynton. S.M. in the Police Court this morning. In a statement to Detective O’Sullivan. accused said he was employed at Takatu Point, Matakana. and had taken the cheque, which he later tendered in Auckland in paynfent for a pair of boots. He signed the name of his employer, F. F. Thompson, on the back as an endorsement. Later he went back to the farm. The young man was committed to the Supreme Court to receive sentence for theft and forging and uttering.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1399, 4 September 1923, Page 8
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