“SHOULD CARRY ON.”

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20258, 29 July 1937, Page 13

“SHOULD CARRY ON.”

POLICE AND REMAND. ATTITUDE OF DEFENDANT. ALLEGED BANKNOTE FORGERY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. ' ‘‘lt has taken seven months since December last and the entire police force of New Zealand to locate the accused,” said Detective-Sergeant Doyle when Charles Alfred Remmers was charged with forging a Reserve Bank note on or about December 24, and objected to a further remand to August 2. ‘‘lf the police thing they have sufficient evidence to hold me they should carry on,” said Remmers to Mr W. F. Stilwell, S.M. “They have had all the time since December to Investigate. All they lacked was a defendant and now they have one.”

Mr Doyle asked that Remmers be remanded to Auckland to appear there on August 2 on a charge of obtaining from Messrs E. W. Pfdgeon and Company, Auckland, oil Christmas Eve, 1936, a tyre valued at £3 3s 3d and £2 10s 9d In cash on the false representations that a £5 Reserve Bank note was a good and valid order. Mr Doyle said he would not proceed with the forgery charge until the other charge had been dealt with at Auckland. Addressing the magistrate, Rernmers said he understood the police had a parcel containing money and tobacco which had been left for him. He had asked for It several times, but It had not been given him. Mr Doyle: I will attend to that The remand was granted.