"STUPID THEFT."
PROSPECTS RUINED FOR 6/-
[THE PBESS Special Service.]
WELLINGTON, February 7
"This is an extremely stupid theft, and tho penalty you have mcurrred already seems to be heavy enough," observed Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., in tho Magistrate's Court to-day, when a young clerk, Edlev Richard Hicks Palmer, aged 23, pleaded guilty to the theft of two postal notes valued at Os, the property of James Arthur Davison. Cliief-Detectivo AVard said that Palmer, who was a married man with one child, wanted some money to pay a life insurance premium, and stole the notes from the drawer or a fellow clerk. "Ho has never been beforo tho Court previously, and has lieen in the employ of tho New Zealand Railway Department for six years," said the Cluet Detective. "This offenco means that' ho has lost his position for tho sake of 65." In view of tho circumstance?, and tho punishment already incurred by the accused, tho Magistrate imposed a nominal fine of £:\ and ordered tho restitution of the stolen money.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 8 February 1927, Page 3
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