FORGED NOTES

Otago Witness, Issue 4028, 26 May 1931, Page 10

FORGED NOTES

SALESMAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. WELLINGTON, May 20. David Collinson, a salesman, aged 35, pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day to charges of having in his possession without lawful authority certain forged £1 notes, knowing them to lie forged. He was committed for trial at the. July sessions of the Supreme Court in Wellington. Opposing the application for bail, Subinspector Ward said the police suggestedthat the accused was one of the principals in what appeared to be a widespread conspiracy. Bail was refused. Evidence was given by a large number of witnesses. The most notable was that of Elsie Chigey, a housemaid, employed at the Masonic Hotel. She said that the accused occupied room 16 on the top floor from April 24 to April 28. On the 28th she cleaned the room. The accused was not in it, but his luggage was still there.' She did not see anything under the linoleum, but on the following day when she went to the room at 1 p.m. to scrub it out she found notes wrapped up in brown paper underneath the linoleum under the wardrobe. The notes were wrapped tightly like a book. When she found the parcel she opened it and took the notes ’to the storeman at the hotel. .