ALLEGED FORGERY.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18778, 28 October 1932, Page 2

ALLEGED FORGERY.

UNION SECRETARY CHARGED. DISTRIBUTION OF RELIEF FUND, (By Telegraph.—Special to Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. Pleading not guilty to s&ven charges of forgery and seven of uttering, Herbert EdXvln Barhsley (52), accountant, relief worker, and late secretary and treasurer of the Labour Defence League, faced trial this morning, before Mr. Justice Ostler and a jury, it was alleged that Barnsley had accepted money from the Mayor’s relief'fund fob distribution to dependents of men Imprisoned as a result of the disturbances in May, had forged the signatures of sCven women without giViftg them their money (3s In each case), and had returned the forged receipts to the City Council, rendering them as genuine receipts. When charged by the women with failing to give them the money, Darnsley maintained that he had been busy and bad handed on the money to another man, who had brought him back the receipts. “ He still maintains that,” said the Crown Prosecutor, “but he has refused to give the name of the man to whom he gave the money.’’ Barnsley was found guilty on all counts and was remanded for sentence.