FORGERY CHARGE
O'VER LETTER TO PAPER
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association
HAMILTON, February 25
An unusual charge of forgery of considerable interest to the public, and particularly to newspaper editors, commenced at the Supreme Court today, when a iqiddl-aged man, named James Alexander Ritchie, was charged with signing a false name to letter which he left at the office of the “Rotorua Chronicle’ with the object of getting the editor to publish it as if it were genuinely written by the person whose signature it bore. The letter contained hn attack upon the Perpetual Forests Company and the State Forest Service. The editor did not publish the letter.
The defence was that Richie was employed to organise a union amongst the workers at the forest camps. In the course of his work lie enrolled n man who gave his name as Robert Yule. The records would show this. He later received a letter from Yule. Richie copied the letter, and when bn handed the copy to the paper, he did so as an a<rent of Yule. Thn Jury returned a verdict of “not guilty.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1930, Page 4
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183FORGERY CHARGE Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1930, Page 4
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