THEFT OF £195.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1934, Page 9

THEFT OF £195.

PAYMASTER FOR SENTENCE. FULL RESTITUTION MADE. Arrested this morning by Detective McWhirter, Julian Frederick Dunn, aged 43, paymaster and banking ofTicer for the Auckland Electric Power Hoard, later appeared in the Police Court before Mr. W. R. McKcan, S.M., charged that, on .January t>, being a servant in the employ of the board, he stole £195 13/10.

Chief Detective Sweeney prosecuted, and accused was represented, by Mr. Vialoux.

Detective McWhirter said he arrested accused this morning, when Dunn handed him a statement which he signed as being true. In this statement accused said he was 43, and joined the electricity department of the Auckland City Council in 1913, and upon the formation of the Auckland Electric Power Board lie was taken over by Hie board and had been in the employ of the board for over 20 years, excepting for a period of three years when he was on active ser-

vice. For the greater period of the 120 years' employment he was paymaster and banking officer. Dunn admitted that lie was handed a returned cheque for £195 with instructions to bank it to the credit of the board in addition to the daily takings. "At this time," lie said, "I had arranged a loan of £200 from a friend and the money was expected by me to be available by the next day, when I thought I would have the money. My reason for wanting the £200 was to liquidate an indebtedness which had been incurred by niv living in excess of my salary. Expecting that I would be getting the money from the loan the next day, instead of banking the amount of the cheque in addition to the amount of the daily takings, I utilised the cheque to make tip the total of the daily takings for the day and to replace a sum of cash for that amount, which I regret to say 1 had taken. 1 thought that the next day I would be in a position to bank cash equivalent to the amount of the cheque after I had obtained the loan, but unfortunately there was a hitch about the loan, and I was not in a position to replace the money before I was due to take my holiday. I am sorry for what I have done. There is nobody excepting myself in the board's employ i who knew anything about the matter until it was found out. There is no other sum involved other than the £195. The money has since been repaid to the board." Accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supremo Court for sentence. Bail was allowed.