REMAND GRANTED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 28 July 1937, Page 2

REMAND GRANTED.

CHARGE OF FORGERY. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 28. “It has taken seven months since December last and tho entire police force of New Zealand to locate tho accused,” said Detective-Sergeant Doyle when Charles Alfred Remmers, charged with forging a Reserve Bank note on or about December 24, objected to a further remand to August 2. “If the police think they have sufficient evidence to hold me they should carry on,” said Remmers to Mr E. 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 E. W. Pidgeon and Co., Auckland, on Christmas Eve, 1936, a tyre valued at £3 3s 3d and £1 16s 9d in cash on the false representation 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. Mr Stilwell said that the remand to appear at Auckland would have to be granted. Addressing the Magistrate, Remmers said he understod that 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.