Baume Swindle Echo

NZ Truth, Issue 1150, 15 December 1927, Page 1

Baume Swindle Echo

CYDNEY ERNE BAUME, swind- '** leiv now lives in peace and tranquility abroad, but there are others back in his home land who are still -suffering the reaction of his crime, committed against the Post Office Saying's Bank, in com--1 pany with iWilliam, Smith. Far- reaching-were the effects of the audacious/ swindle conceived in the mind of Baume and partially perpetrated by the instrument Smith. Last week "in the Wellington Supreme. Court before Justice MacGregor, a postal official, James Alexander Elliot, applied for the issue of a writ requiring the Post «V Telegraph Appeal Board to hear his appeal against being required to pay £lO towards makr ing good the deficiency caused by the frauds. Other officials, too, have felt the reaction of.Baume's action and together with the £lO required from Elliot, have paid back the sum of £B4, the amount not re-.: covered from the swindlers. The defence against Elliot's appeal was that his actions in accepting a post-dated cheque were irregular. He had committed a •breach of duty and was guilty of negligence in accepting ,it., The action was brought as a test, case as other, postal officials V were interested in the - action, and the whole thing resolved itself into a definition of the word "fine." Lawyer C. A. L. Treadwell, who appeared for Elliot, said inter alia, that the Postal Regulations provided for post-dated cheques be- ; ing received, but his honor, said no man in his sane senses would accept a post-dated cheque as a credit. .He. dismissed the application. *.'.''