BANK CLERK’S ALERTNESS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 451, 5 June 1937, Page 4

BANK CLERK’S ALERTNESS

[MAN DETAINED IN STREET i i An Allegation Of Forgery Pi ess Association—Copyright. Hamilton, June 5. As the result of the initiative of a bank clerk, a young man who had presented a cheque at the Hamilton branch of the Bank of New Zealand to-day was apprehended in the street I and will appear in 'the Police Court I on a charge of forgery. i The cheque was for £,12 and bore ' the name ot a business man in Hamil- [ ton. When handed over the counter j it. was given to the ledger-keeper for [ comparison with the original tigna- | ture, whereupon the young man slipi ped unobtrusively out of the door, j One of the bank clerks, having susi picions, followed him along the street I for two blocks and then took him [■ back to the bank. He was subte- ■ quently handed to the police.