A CURIOUS CASE.

Evening Star, Issue 4075, 18 March 1876, Page 2

A CURIOUS CASE.

At Invercargill, on Thursday, William Forrester, a carpenter, was charged with obtaining tnonmr by fraudulent representations. From the evidence ft appeared that the accused, while living in Dunedin, opened on account .in the Savings-Bank here. -On the 26th of May, 1875, he withdrew tbe sdmHii LS 10®. This'was duly entered in the withdAwal column of the deposit-book. • At some sttbsequoiit period the entry m withdravral erased, and the stun ox IS 10a plsoed, Intho deposit column, but. this mi not Aotioedlitnot bffing usual to examine depositors* books minutely mitil application is made to withdraw the wholeof the money Standing to their credit. The accused afterwards went tolive at Invercargill; There he presented his depositor's book, arid asked to ’wdthdrawtheamotmt standing to his credit at theDnnedm Bank. In reality he had only L3ssto withdraw on the 10th January, 1876, but owing to the alteration mentioned the amount was made, to appear LlO ss. The accused seated that this amount - was standing to his credit; andsigned a‘statement to" that effect. Itrblfl, , defen<& before the magistrates he made the following Statement “ On the 10th of jannary, 1676, Idiamot know that uiy book hodbeentampeiedwiih.Tlt'tras hot-till sometime afterwards that I questioned and she confessed she had tampered , with it,?- I questioned her. because of the deity i 'wtieh had takftn - place in ‘ getting ' the account i transferred.when Z asked her why the had done - it, She said She thought the young manln'the office ' had made a mistake; About tentfays or%toftrfgbt after thajb I said to Atkinson (thfe clerk in theFoet Office), that there , was some, mistake In.thß bOok, ' to shield mywife from the convoquanoee >• tLat might result . from ...iwwiiwf™ •.--of offence.** Theaoonsed was