COUNTERFEIT NOTES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 8

COUNTERFEIT NOTES

CHRISTMAS EVE INCIDENTS CHARGES AGAINST PRINTER [ Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, Feb. 9. The passing of four ferged Reserve Bank notes for £5 each, and an unsuccessful attempt to change another in large Wellington stores on Christmas Eve was denied at the Supreme Court by Clifford George Remmers, labourer and printer, aged 19, who was also charged with forging a five-pound note, being in possession of a forged note, and uttering a counterfeit note (four charges) ana attempting to utter. When cross-examining Detective Campin, who was in the witness box for nearly an hour, Mr Hardie Boys, for accused, asked whether it was a fact that a warrant was out for the arrest of another person. The Crown Prosecutor: I submit that the question is hardly relevant. His Honour: I can’t see how it is. Mr Hardie Boys: I submit that the Crown's case is that accused did this forging and that therefore the question is relevant. His Honour: Yes and no. A dozen other persons may have been associated with the matter for all anybody knows, but that doesn’t affect his guilt or innocence. Mr Hardie Boys: I submit that it affects his innocence if there is another person capable of being proved guilty. His Honour: What does it matter if there is a warrant out for someoody else. We are not trying a case against anybody else. Mr Hardy Boys said he would not pursue the question. To a further question, Detective Campin replied that some of the forged notes in circulation in Auckland on Christmas Eve came from the same “factory” as the Wellington ones. He understood that apart from Wellington, the forged notes were passed only in Auckland on Christmas Eve. The case will be continued tomorrow.