Charged With Passing Forged Notes

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 5

Charged With Passing Forged Notes

IS THERE ANOTHER WARRANT OUT? COUNSEL'S QUESTION CAUSES ARGUMENT. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feb. 9. The passing of four forged Reserve Bank notes for £5 each and an unsuccessful attemjit to change another in largo Wellington stores on Christmas Eve wore denied in the Supreme Court to-day by Clifford George Remmers, a labourer and printer, aged 19, who was also charged with forging a £5 note, being in possession of a forged note, uttering a counterfeit note, and four charges of attempting to utter. When cross-examining Detective Campin, who was it the witness box for nearly an hour, Mr. Hardie Boys, for the accused, asked whether it was a fact that a warrant was out for tho arrest of another person. The Crown Prosecutor “I submit the question is hardly relevant.” His Honour “I can’t see how it is.” Mr. Hardio Boys “I submit that the Crown's case is that accused did this forging and that therefore the question is relevant.” His Honour: "Yes, and a dozen other persons may have been associated with the matter for all anybody knows, but that does not affect his guilt or innocence.” Mr. Hardie Boys: “I submit it affects bis innocence, if there is another person capable of being proved guilty.” His Honour; “What does it matter if (hero is a warrant out for somebody else? We not trying the case against anybody else.** Mr. Hardie Bovs said he would not pursue the question. To a further question Detective Campin replied that some of the forged notes in circulation in Auckland on Christmas Eve came from the same "factory” as the Wellington ones, tie understood that apart from Wellington, forged notes were passed only in Auckland on Christmas Eve. The case will be continued to-morrow.