FORGERY AND UTTERING

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 424, 4 May 1937, Page 4

FORGERY AND UTTERING

| OFFENCES ADMITTED 1 Farm Labourer Committed For Sentence Pleading guilty to charges of forgery and uttering, Charles Mozart Spinley, alias George Davis,'« farm labourer, of Tutwtawa, wat committed for sentence at the next session of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth on May 24, when he appeared in the Stratford Police Court this morning before Messrs W. L. Kennedy and C. R. Finnerty, J’s.P. Sergeant C. M. Anniss prosecuted. Accused was charged that on April 24, at Tututawa, he forged a cheque for £l2 purporting to be drawn on the Bank of New Zealand at Stratford, payable to G. Davis and signed H. C. Bunny, with intent that it should be acted upon as genuine. He was further charged with üb'ering the cheque to Jack Ivan Hooker. Jack Ivan Hooker, taxi proprietor, of Stratford, said thiit on April 24 the accused came to him on the taxi stand about 1 p.m. He said his name was Geo. Davis, and he was working on Mr Arkwright’s property at Tututawa. He shid he had come to town for the week-end and as he had to pay more money as a deposit on a suit than he anticipated, he requested, witness to drive him to Witness took him there and back to Stnatford. He then took him to the Midhirst Hotel. There he handed a cheque for £l2 in payment of the total fare of £2. Accused was given the change of £lO. Witness knew there was a Mr Bunny at Tututawa, an<J accepted the cheque as genuine. The cheque was pfiid into the Bank of New Zealand, and on April 26 he received it back marked: “Signature unlike specimen.” Huddlestone Clive Bunny, farm manager at Tututawa, said he had employed accused under the name of Geo. Davis. On nearly every occasion Davis drew his wages weekly by cheque. The.cheque produced was not taken from his book and the signature was hot his.Chas. A. D Smith, manager of the Stratford brunch ol the Bank of New Zeliland,. said the signature to the cheque had a . certain reseptblan.'.e, but it wrs not Mr Bunny’s siguatura. Agnes l.ucy Danzason, clerk, emi ployed by Masters, bid., at Stratford. | said that on April 10 she sold two | cheque forms to the accused, who isaid his name was Arkwright. She [knew there were people of that name farming at Tututawa. Accusid said lie had an account at the Bank of New Zealand. Constable W. Hughes said that as a result of ia complaint by Hooker he made inquiries and eventually located the accused at Makahu When interviewed, he admitted the offence. In 1 statement to the police he said he j had spent all the money on liquor 'aid : taxis with 'the exception of 3s 3d. | When ' sked whether he had any I siatemetnt to make, accused said that iif he had the opportunity he would I certainly try and pay back the money.