A valueless cheque

Fraudster jailed for 12 months after using “a valueless cheque” while shopping in a pharmacy  It’s April 1906, and 56-year-old Victorian, William Westgarth, is set to spend a year behind bars after being convicted of using fake cheques to buy medicines, the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy reports.   Westgarth was charged at the Carlton court on 16 March 1906, with “obtaining goods by means of a valueless cheque”.