FORGED £1 NOTES
THE JURY DISAGREES. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 81. The hearing of the series of charges, arising ont of the circulation of a number of forged Bank of New South Wales £1 notes in April last, was concluded in the Supreme Court to-night. Maurice Goodman, aged 42; Percy Short, aged 51; Percy John McKenzie Short’ aged 20; and Harry Torphy, aged 46, were-charged with conspiring together to defraud the public by uttering forged bank notes, and on five counts of uttering forged banknotes at Otahuhu, Papaknra and Huntly. The Crown’s case was that 120 forged notes were circulated, and it was alleged that some of these were uttered by tli© accused at various places during a motor trip from Auckland to Hamilton. The defence was a denial that the accused uttered the cheques, the evidence of the Crown witnesses regarding identity being challenged The jury, after a retirement of 41 hours, failed to agree. A new trial was ordered.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1931, Page 2
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163FORGED £1 NOTES Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1931, Page 2
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