THEFT OF £124 ADMITTED
Totalisator Clerk’s Offence (N2. Prtss Association) DUNEDIN. June 5. “The tragedy of this case would have been that a fellow employee would have forfeited the equivalent amount or lost his position because of the theft,” Detec-tive-Sergeant J. K Hamilton told the Magistrate’s Court at Dunedin today when James Soroule Colquhoun Gilkison, aged 53, clerk, was charged with having stolen £124 from the Dunedin Jockey Club at Wingatui on Saturday. Gilkison. who pleaded guilty, was remanded in custody until Monday for a probation report and sentence. Detective-Sergeant Hamilton said Gilkison had been employed as a ticket seller in the totalisator.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29841, 6 June 1962, Page 9
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