FORGERY AND UTTERING
ELDERLY MAN FOR SENTENCE (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) PUKEKOHE, Monday A plea of guilty to two charges of forging and uttering a valueless cheque was entered by an elderly man, Charles Moyart Spinley, in the Pukekohe Police Court today, before Messrs D. Jamieson and G. T. Parvin, J.’sP. Evidence was given that on February 22, 1939, accused called on a farmer at Puni and represented that he was a customer to whom the farmer had been sending produce in response to mail orders. He ordered produce worth £1 to be railed and wrote a cheque on a Hamilton bank for £5, signing it with the name of the customer. The farmer arranged with a business firm in Pukekohe to cash the cheque, retaining £1 and giving accused £4 change. At a shop in Tuakau early in March accused presented a Pukekohe cheque for £lO in payment of an account of 14s that he owed at the shop. He ordered a further 6s worth of goods, and received £9 in change. The name of a well-known farmer in the district was on the bottom of the cheque, as a signature, but when the cheque was presented at the bank it was found that the farmer had no account there and that the signature was a forgery. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21154, 2 July 1940, Page 7
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