INSURANCE COMPANY ROBBED

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20937, 18 August 1933, Page 6

INSURANCE COMPANY ROBBED

THREE MEN SENTENCED (I'EESS ASSOCIATION TELZGEAJI.) WELLINGTON, August 17. Mr Justice Reed sentenced prisoners in the Supreme Court to-day. Until recently employed in Responsible - positions in vthe Phoenix 'Assurance Company, Arthur Philip Pool, 37 years of age, and John William Darroch, 23, were sentenced to reformative detention ior two years and 12 months respectively. Another former employee of the same company, Harold Percy Campbell, 22, was sentenced to two years' detention in a Borstal institutions The charges related to the theft of money belonging to the company. Pool had stolen £363 16s lOd, Darroch £SB 15s 3d, and Campbell £685. His Honour said that a most extraordinary position had been revealed. The three persons had been deliberately robbing the company for some time. As far as' he could see from the statements, there was no collusion between them. They were simply three independent thieves, stealing from the company. It was a most extraordinary state of affairs and very serious. » Solicitor's Thefts. Albert Lionel Bailey, 39 years of age, formerly a solicitor at Napier, appeared for sentence on five charges, one involving the theft of £2lll lis lid, three of forgery, and one of making a false declaration. , On the charge of theft, prisoner was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, the terms on th.e other charges being made concurrent. . John Asher, for breaking; entering, and theft, two charges, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and declared an habitual criminal. Leslie Clifton Arthur Paynie, on two charges of breaking, entering, and theft, was sentence*! to two years* imprisonment with hard labour, and declared an habitual criminal.