ALLEGED FORGERY.
|_PBH PRESS ASSOCIATION.J • f DUNEDIN, June 13. At the Police Court to-day, John Jones, an elderly man, was charged with forging and uttering two promissory notes on the Bank of New South Wales, Wanganui, for £2i 10s and £25 respectively. The bills were given to an hotelkeeper as security for board and lodging. They were signed by F, Williams, and endorsed by F. J. Jones. It turned out that there was so such per-i son as Frederick Williams, and the Bench said that if there was no such person as Williams his name could not bo forged. Besides there was no prodf that-*tbe«bili»' j ‘Wonld^notr*be A ”taken’ fti iip ? when: they matured. ; The charge was dismissed; withdnV prejudice; There was'a 'further chajge of the same nature, which was till Tuesday.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1047, 15 June 1883, Page 3
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132ALLEGED FORGERY. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1047, 15 June 1883, Page 3
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