FORGED NOTE CASE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 22, 10 February 1937, Page 6

FORGED NOTE CASE

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Young Labourer Charged a| Wellington ARGUMENTIN COURT

(By Telegraph--

WELLINGTON, Feb.ft, . ,The passing of four forged Reservll |Bank notes for £5 each and an unsuo ' icessful attempt to ehango another ia : jlarge Wellington stores on Christmas ^iEve were denied in the Supreme Court to-day by Clifford George Remmers, a labourer and printer, aged 19, who wai .also, charged with fprging a £5 notq, being in possession of A forged not% uttering a counterfeit note, and four charges of attempting to utter. When cross-examining Detectivs Campin, who was it the witness box |or nearly an hour, Mr. Hardie Boys, for the accused, asked whether it was a fact that a warrant was. out for the arrest of another person, The Crown Prosecutor **£ subnrit the question is hardly relevant. ' * His. Honour "I ean't see how st ia," Mr, Hardie Boys "I submit that the .Crown 's case is that accused did forging and that therefore the question iis relevant.'.' His Honour: "Yes, and a dozen othet ■persons may have been associated with ithe matter for all anybody knows, but {that does not affect his guilt or innow ioence." Mr. Hardie Boys: "I snbmit it affeettj jhis innocence, if there is another persoaj icapable of- being proved guilty." His Honour; "What does it matter i| there is a warrant out for somebodjj elsef We are not trying the eascj against anybody else." Mr. Hardie Boys said he would not jpursue the question. To a further question Detective Camj pin replied that some of the forged notes in circulation in Auckland oo| Christmas Eve came from the same "factbry" as.the Wellington ones.- He understood that apart from Wellington^ forged notes were passed only in Aucki land on Christmas Eve. ; The case will be continued to-morrow*