OFF TO SYDNEY
YOUNG MAN’S PLANS POLICE INTERVENE FORGERY CHARGE ADMITTED w working in a tobacconist’s shop with his prospective mother-in-law. Maurice Chapman, aged 32, decided to go to Australia. To obtain the necessary money he forged a cheque. At the Police Court to-day he pleaded guilty to a charge of forgiug a cheque for £IOO, and obtaining jewellery valued at £2l 9s 3d and £7B 10s in money by means of a valueless cheque. Lavinia Isaacs, a married woman, said that accused was keeping cor*, pany with her daughter. She went into a tobacconist business in Karan gahape Road, Chapman working with her. On December 23. after accused had made arrangements to marry her daughter, he disappeared. It was found later that he had forged her name to a cheque for £IOO. Police evidence was that accused had purchased a boat ticket for Sydney and was arrested soon before he was due to leave. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 250, 12 January 1928, Page 9
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164OFF TO SYDNEY Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 250, 12 January 1928, Page 9
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