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FORGERY ALLEGED PROCEEDINGS IN BANKRUPTCY (By Telegraph.—Press Association) DUNEDIN, Saturday An order that exhibits in the petition for adjudication as a bankrupt of Robert S. Wilson, formerly of Dunedin, but now of Wellington, be impounded and made available to the police was made by Mr Justice Smith in the Supreme Court today. During the hearing it was alleged by Mrs Nellie Ada Brown, the petitioner, that a document of compromise produced by the debtor was a forgery, the signature beinig an exact tracing of a signature she had made six years earlier in giving the debtor a testimonial. In allowing the withdrawal of the petition, the debtor having paid the amount, the judge stated the agreements put forward by the debtor were attacked as forgeries, and on the evidence he had come to the conclusion that the onus had shifted on to the debtor to show that they were (genuine, which onus he had not discharged. The evidence did not point to any particular person as the author of the forgery, but he thought the police should have an opportunity to oonsider the matter.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20888, 21 August 1939, Page 9
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186IMPOUNDED DOCUMENT Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20888, 21 August 1939, Page 9
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