MAORI’S FORGERY
EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
ROTORUA, September 9,
Maori, Thos. Thompson, employed as chaffeur, by Colin Smith, of Kawha Point, was to-day committed for sentence, on a charge of forging the name of his employer to a cheque for £4O. Smith, in evidence, said that he gave Thompson a cheque book for the purpose of filling in a cheque, for £2O 18c, being wages due, but ho later found that a cheque for £4O had been drawn. He had signed the cheque, leaving Thompson to fill in the body of it.
Evidence was also given by a guest staying at tbo house that she had found a paper on which Thompson had been practising writing Smith’s signature
The constable who had arrested Thompson, said that he had found him holding a gun, and was told that he had threatened to blow out his brains.
Counsel for the accused said that Thompson had had a very trying time following the recent death of bis mother and he had used the majority or the money to pay her funeral expenses.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1932, Page 5
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182MAORI’S FORGERY Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1932, Page 5
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