An Audacious Forgery
[PER UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION.] | Chkistchubch, October 1. A clever and audacious forgery of a cheque for a large amount has occurred here. On Tuesday evening a boy called at Messrs Ballantyne and Co's, drapers' shop and said he had been sent by a gentleman who wanted a cheque for £2 7s, in exchange for cash, as the post office was closed and he wanted to send the amount to a person in Wellington. The request was complied with. Yesterday, a I cheque for £76, signed by Ballantyne I and Co., was presented at the Nattional Bank and cashed. On enquiry I it was found to be a forgery, and the supposition was tbat the cheque for £2 7s was obtained for the purpose of 1 copying the signature of the firm, which was remarkably well imitated. I The case was placed in the hands of j Detective O'Connor. The result was tbat this afternoon he arrested a man named Jonathan Roberts, formerly a clerk in the Bank of New Zealand at Timaru. Subsequently £64 in National Bank notes was found in a pocket of Roberts' coat at his lodgings, and a person who was in Roberts' company when he was arrested gave the police a letter signed by Roberts, containing a request to bury tho coat aud a canvass bag, in which the money had been sent from the bank, in the sandhills.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 48, 2 October 1886, Page 2
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236An Audacious Forgery Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 48, 2 October 1886, Page 2
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