FORGERY MADE EASY.
The foolish manner in which trades- i men unthinkingly lend themselves to proceedings which invariably end in chares of forgery was scathingly commented on by Dr A. M'Arthur, S.M., in the Wellington Police Court yesterday. "All a person has to do," he said, "id to walk into a shop and askjfor a blank cheque. The person getting the cheque forges a signature and marches off to the next shop to buy goods, and gets an amount in change far exceeding the cost of his purchase." In this way one tradesman lent himself to the victimisation of another. Dr M'Arthur said that he often wondered that the thing was not carried on to a greater extent, considering the opportunities that were given for offences of the kind to be committed. He did not know whether it would not be a guod thing to make the giver of the blank cheque responsible for half the loss occasioned in these illegal transactions, or whether he ought not to be liable to a charge of aiding and abetting.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9165, 13 August 1908, Page 4
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177FORGERY MADE EASY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9165, 13 August 1908, Page 4
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