Haulier Gaoled for Fraud
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DASS1NG sentence of 18 month; imprisonment on a haulage contractor involved in the forging of conveyance notes, Judge Aarv old at the Old Bailey last week said: "This fraud seems to he a particularly dangerous one, easy to operate and possibly very difficult to bring home to the culprit. But if anyone else should be tempted to go in for a similar practice they had better realize there are very severe penalties involved.
A jury had convicted Peter Oliver Gilseman, Reid Street, Islington, on seven charges of obtaining money, totalling about £180. from a transport agency, by using forged notes.
Nr. Edward Clark, prosecuting, said that Gilseman, in a small way of
business, was engaged by contractors to shift rubble at building sites. The practice was for a site checker to sign a note for every load removed, and the haulier to claim payment against the note. BeCause of the delay in obtaining payment. hauliers could get their money immediately, less 5 per cent., from a transport agency, who claimed from the contractors.
Gilseman. it was alleged, had resorted to filling-in and forging signatures on 94 conveyance notes, He pleaded not guilty and said that if there had been any dishonesty it had been by his drivers.
Det. Sgt. Thomas Johnson said that Gilseman had three previous convictions and came out of prison in May, 1958.