AN OBLIGING STAMP.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1843, 25 August 1906, Page 3

AN OBLIGING STAMP.

FORGER AND HOUSEBREAKER,

PRESS ASSOCIATION Auckland, last night,

At tbo Magistrate's Court, before Mr Hattie, S.M., a middio ogod man named James Mackey, alias Hoff, aiias Hamilton, aiias Dwyer, alias Dunn, was charged with 10 oiLncja of forgery and brooking and emoting, Accused had w.-itten a statement acknowledging having committed tho uffeno.s. Ho bad made tho nekuowledg moot, ho said, without aoy pressure from Dolectivo Hill, recognising the necessity of saving expotsa as much as possible. Chief Detective Mursack said that accused had made a speciality of forging uud bret-kiog aud ootoring Due i:g last few in jntbs ho ii id broken into aoveral couutry hjus.s aod slolou account aud blank ehequo forms. Armed with these ha would very kindly pay recounts with forged cbtqaos. Ho would mako out uebrquo fur more than tho amount of tho account, and emu queenly rocaivod obaDge. At the p osont timo he was undergoieg a ecntoooe of seven years, haviDg been nrr.sied ut Napier for iika effouees, Tho uccased hid given the police ovory assist-moo in clearing up the offences commuted in Auckland. Evidence war tion given in support of the ohargea. Oo being a.kod it ha had anything t a say, accused said ho wished tho cases to bo d 3posod u( a 3 soon as possible, as ho c-ould not slHIj down to his sentence (meaning the one ho is now rerv iog). Aecusid pleaded guilty to all the cha'-gee, aod wm committed to the Supreme Cjurt for sentence.