FORGERY AND THEFT
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Broker Admits Charges Involving £1300 HEAVY BEniNG L0SSES
(By Telegraph—
? GISBORNE, Last Night, Seventeetf charges involving over £1300 in forgery and theft were admitted by William McKinnon, mercan--tile broker, aged 44, before the Magistrate, Mr E. L. Walton. • Evidence was given that the accused induced people, including proxninent men and a working widovv, to advance money for the purchase of fencing posts from North Auckland and the South Island, stating in several tases ihat receipts would come- from the vendors. Witnesses were shown the ' receipts after the lapse of a few weeks. Other witnesses were given receipts by the accused. In statements to Detective Belton the accused admitted t'orging the receipts and using the money for bettmg in trying to recoup [osses, which at one Wellington meeting totalled £800. _ He was committed ,or sentence at- Gisborne,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 11, 28 January 1937, Page 6
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