CHARGES DISMISSED
ALLEGED FORGERY AND FALSE PRETENCES (P.A.) Dunedin. Feb. 16. Further charges arising from alleged irregularities in Army paysheets were heard to-day. when James William Harold Smith and Lewis Norman Grant, civilians, were charged with obtaining respectively £l5 Is 3d and 16s 2d by false pretences and having committed forgery by appending fictitious signatures to pay-sheets. After evidence had been heard counsel for defendants submitted that there was no prima facie case. Mr. H.<J. Dixon, S.M., dismissed all the charges, stating that on the false pretences count there was no evidence of fraud, as it seemed that defendants had worked for the money received. On the forgery charge the •vidence was such that no jury would Convict.
Alexander Reid Young, who was similarly charged, the amount involved being £l6 Is 9d. pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 39, 17 February 1943, Page 4
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