AN INGENIOUS FORGER. [BY TELEGRAPH-PRESS ASSOCIATION .] Christchurch, Friday.
To-day a young man named Jonathan Robert*, formerly a bank clerk at Tunaru, was arrested for forging a cheque for £76 on the National Bank, drawn in the mine of Messrs Balantyne and Co., drapers, Christchurch. The accused haxing previously acquainted himself with Balnntyue and Co.'s signature by sending a boy with £2 7*, for which he requested a cheque in change, representing that it was to Msnd to a person in Wellington. Ho got another boy to present tho forged cheque at the bank, wheie the fraud was m>t detected. £o3 of the money has been recovered.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2221, 2 October 1886, Page 2
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106AN INGENIOUS FORGER. [BY TELEGRAPH-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, Friday. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2221, 2 October 1886, Page 2
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