FORGERY ADMITTED
YOUNG MAN’S LAPSE STORY OF INTENDED HOTEL PURCHASE. I Per Press AsFoclation. ] AUCKLAND. Dec. 1. Richard Thomas Douglas Cook, aged 22. pleaded guilty at the Police Court to forgery of a credit note on the Bank of New South Wales for £5449 with the intention that it be acted upon as genuine, also to forging a promissory note for £4O. Evidence was given by a hotel broker that accused introduced himself as a publican from Sydney, saying that he wasted to buy an hotel. He paid a deposit of £5 on an Auckland hotel. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20013, 2 December 1927, Page 11
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105FORGERY ADMITTED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20013, 2 December 1927, Page 11
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