265:"was convicted on charges of conspiracy and having been knowingly directly concerned in the attempt by Skelton to forge a £5 note", whilst, in the case of Ostberg, "who was charged conspiracy and having been directly concerned with the attempt to forge", the jury was unable to agree upon a verdict. Ostberg was remanded on bail, and a retrial was ordered. Skelton and Gilligan were both sentenced to four years' imprisonment, and Gilligan's name was permanently removed from the register of pharmacists.
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Given that
Ostberg and a number of others were missing from the St Kilda team that played Geelong on 31 May 1919, the reporter, in noting that "St. Kilda had a weak team at Geelong", also remarked that "it is singular that since the opening of the season 14 of the 25 players have not played regularly
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In June 1927, Ostberg was tried again in the
Criminal Court, "charged with having in December of last year conspired with Lance Philip Skelton and John Francis Giliigau to forgo £5 Commonwealth Bank notes, and also with having been knowingly and directly concerned in the commission of an offence —
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On 22 December 1925 Ostberg and two others, Lance
Phillip Skelton, a signwriter, and John Francis Gilligan, a pharmacist, were arrested at Gilligan's pharmacy at 448 Glen Huntly Road, Caulfield, where a small printing press was operating in the pharmacy's back-room dispensary.
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An outstanding footballer as a schoolboy, who had represented
Melbourne State Schools in a match against Sydney State Schools that served as a curtain-raiser for the 1912 VFL Preliminary Final match between Essendon and Carlton, at the
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on 21 September 1912, and already a junior footballer with St Kilda, Ostberg was training with
Melbourne, when he lost three fingers from his left hand in an industrial accident at his father's Richmond rubber factory.
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He played 22 games for St Kilda over two seasons (1918 and 1919). He played in all of St Kilda's fifteen matches in 1918; he played in the first match of the 1919 season, missed the next nine matches due to the
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the forging of a
Commonwealth security". The trial lasted three days and, once again, the jury was unable to agree upon a verdict; and, once again, Ostberg, was remanded on bail and a retrial ordered.
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In October 1927 it was announced that the Commonwealth's prosecuting authorities were not insisting on a fifth trial, would abandon any further prosecution of Ostberg, and would file a
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In July 1927, Ostberg was tried again in the Criminal Court; the trial lasted four days and, again, the jury was unable to agree on a verdict, and, again, Ostberg was remanded on bail.
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Farm Land Exchanged: Owner Alleges Fraud: Judgement Given for £600,
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156:Horatio Engelbrecht Ragnar "Roy" Ostberg
737:, (Wednesday, 21. September 1927), p.6.
583:The Association: Prahran v. Brunswick,
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158:(21 March 1897 – 18 June 1942) was an
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535:either through illness or accident" (
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617:, (Thursday, 23 December 1926), p.9.
464:, (Monday, 23 September 1912), p.10.
364:, (Saturday, 17 November 1928), p.9.
231:Victorian Football Association (VFA)
628:Bank Note Forgery: Two Men Guilty,
449:, (Monday, 23 September 1912), p.6.
380:, (Thursday, 7 September 1899), p.8
349:, (Saturday, 25 August 1928), p.13.
808:Law Notices: Notice to Creditors,
763:No Conviction: Note Forgery Case,
509:, (Friday, 4 September 1914), p.3.
479:, (Tuesday, 26 October 1909), p.4.
335:Holmesby & Main (2014), p.680.
40:Horatio Engelbrecht Ragnar Ostberg
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859:, (Thursday, 26 June 1934), p.10.
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494:, (Thursday, 23 July 1914), p.10.
419:, (Saturday, 19 July 1947), p.11.
404:, (Saturday, 14 April 1883), p.2.
871:Roy Ostberg's playing statistics
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707:, (Saturday, 9 July 1927), p.12.
662:, (Sunday, 10 April 1927), p.14.
632:, (Saturday, 2 April 1927), p.9.
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242:Forgery of £5 notes
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553:Play and Players,
505:Play and Players,
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778:Deaths: Ostberg,
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