Further Remand On Charge of Tote Ticket Forgery

Grey River Argus, 9 April 1948, Page 2

Further Remand On Charge of Tote Ticket Forgery

When Edgar George ‘Boucher Honey, aged 29 years, married, a railway surfaceman, of Blaketown, made his second appearance in the Police Court at Greymouth yesterday. on a charge of forging a totalisation ticket at the Grey-Westland Trotting Club’s meeting at Victoria Park pn March 29, a further remand for a week was granted by Mr F. H. Denton. J.P. In making the application for the remand, Detective-Sergeant N. Thompson, said that he would be prepared to proceed with the hearing next Thursday. Mr C. R. McGinley, who appeared for the accused, offered no objection to the remand. Mr Denton renewed bail in the accused’s own recognisance of £lOO and one surety of £lOO. FALSE PRETENCES CHARGE Further charges were pending, said Detective-Sergeant N. Thompson, when Kenneth .Tory Reeves, aged 29, a brickmaker, of no fixed abode, was charged with obtaining £6 19s (id from Ronald Russell King at Greymouth on March 9, by false pretences, by representing that a cheque for £9 10s, purporting to be signed by W. S. Green, was a good and valid document. In applying for a remand until next Thursday, the detective-sergeant said that the accused was arrested only the previous evening and. other charges were pending. The application for a remand was granted. .No application was made for bail..