BOGUS CHEQUES
MAN SENT TO PRISON • ’ FOR TWO YEARS. VERY RECENTLY RELEASED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 18. Released on January 6 this year, Samuel Lee, a labourer, aged 32, recommenced the issue of valueless cheques and today faced five charges involving the receipt of goods to the value of £3 16s Id and £34 0s 5d in money, all on cheques purporting to be signed by Eric L. Riddiford. In each instance, he obtained private cheque forms, causing the magistrate to remark that it was difficult to understand how private persons facilitated this class of crime by the ease with which they were willing to give cheque forms to complete strangers. “And in these cases,” he added, “business people appear to have accepted dubious cheques without question.” Cumulative sentences on two of the charges sent Lee back to prison for two years.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1939, Page 10
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143BOGUS CHEQUES Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1939, Page 10
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