THEFT OF £50

Evening Star, Issue 22142, 24 September 1935, Page 8

THEFT OF £SO

forged savings rank receipt A YOUNG WOMAN'S STATEMENT [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 24. Charges of forging and uttering a Post Office Savings Bank withdrawal receipt for £SO were preferred against a domestic, aged 21, who appeared in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. She was said to have forged a withdrawal slip in the name of Lillian May Haughey. Mr Levvey, S.M , ordered her name to bo suppressed. She pleaded auilty, and was committed for sentence. ' Immediately after the girl’s case had been heard Hugh. Francis Haughey, a pastrycook, aged 23, was charged with stealing £SO, the property of the Post-master-General, and with receiving £SO, knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained. Haughey pleaded not guilty, and was committed for trial. Detective Harding said that he had asked the female accused about her relations with Haughey and had asked her for a sample of her handwriting. She later admitted forging the receipt, and said she had been full of remorse ever since. In a statement the accused said she knew Haughey and had frequently been to his home. In July last, the statement continued, Haughey started to ask her for money, and she gave him £l6 in three instalments. She asked for it back, but Plaughey put her off. He told her that his sister had money in the Post Office, and if he could pet" it he would be able to pay her hack. Haughey said he was going to Dunedin, continued the accused’s statement. He said he would pet his sister’s bank book and she (the accused) could get the money out. She resisted at first, but then agreed. Haughey gave her the book, and she cashed a receipt for £SO, receiving nine £5 notes and five £1 notes. She asked Hauphey for her £l6. and he said he would give it to her that evening, hut he never came