FORGED CHEQUES.
SYSTEMATIC OPERATIONS IN • PALMERSTON N.
“If you cash this cheque, I’ll buy a suit from you,” stated a young man to an assistant in a Pahnersl on X. departmental store on Monday afternoon, snvs the Times. The assistant looked at the signature on the cheque, which was for £22, and then advised the prospective purchaser to take it to the office. The tenderer <>£ the cheque walked away ami instead of going to the office, wandered into the hoot department apparently under the impression flint lie was in a different store. “If you cash this cheque,” lie said to the assistant, “I buy a pair of hoots from you.” On looking around, the man evidently discovered that he
was in the same shop, and immediately decamped, leaving the cheque in liic hands of the assistant. The matter was placed in the hands of the police. It Was subsequently intimated that the man had been operating at a Palmerston N. Bank on the account of a former Palmerston N. resident for another forged cheque for £2B, drawn on the same account, was discovered in the hands of another lai'ge firm in town.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2786, 18 September 1924, Page 3
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192FORGED CHEQUES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2786, 18 September 1924, Page 3
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