Post Office Money Order Clerk Pleads Guilty To Forgery
| DUNEDIN, Yesterday (PA).--Ad-imitting forgery of a withdrawal slip (for £275, David Robert Gordon, aged 123, a former clerk in the Post Office money order branch, was this morning | committed by Mr J. D. Willis, S.M., to [the Supreme Court for sentence. i Evidence was given that a depositor I who had sent his bank book in to have I interest added was informed that it had been''lost. This book and a withdrawal slip were subsequently presented at. a suburban post office by Gordon, who received and signed a jreceipt for £275 in the name of the 'depositor. I The police staled that they had been handed £220 by accused and that the balance had been paid into the Post Office.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 23 December 1949, Page 6
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