CONSPIRACY CASE

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1643, 9 January 1906, Page 2

CONSPIRACY CASE

CAPTAIN LINDFORS' WILL. REIMER ADMITS KNOWLEDGE OF FORGERY. By telegraph, Presa Aas'n, Copyright Received 11,12 p.m., JaD. 8. Sydoey, Jan. 8. Reimer, further cross-examined, admitted that she knew tbe will was a forgery when negotiating for a loan to cover the expenses of contesting it in the New Zealand Courts. She objected to going iota the witness box in New Zealand and swearing lies, but Butrhcc told her that probably she would not be required to go into the box, She was engaged to Captain Liodfors for five years.

A cable on the 4th stited :—“ The conspiracy case in connection with the will of Captain Lindfors, at one time a resident of Auckland, was opened to day. Frederick Butcher (solicitor). Joseph John Rochester (contractor) and Alma White (married woman) are charged with obtaining an advance of £4O from Mr F. Y. Wilson, solioi'.o-, on the false pretence that the will of Captain Lindfors in favor of the woman Reimer was genuine. Dorothy Reimer, a German, who gave evidence in English with difficulty, stated that she waß engaged to Lindfors. When he died be left her a p’eco of paper, which Bbo handed to Rochester, who remarked, 11 She’s a lucky woman.” She siw the document signed in Rochester's offioe by Alma White and Constance Cato. Rochester told witneFS that she would have to pay Cato £SO. Wisness afterwards signed four documents, the contents of which she did not know. Rochester instructed her wbat to do when she went before the Court at Auckland, Alter she got the money of the estato she was to leave the colony for twelve months. She strongly resent9d a proposal that the money would bo divided into threo shares.”