Clerk Stole $4400 From Post Office
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AUCKLAND, May 10. A Post Office employee with 20 years of service admitted stealing $4400 from the Post Office late last year, when he appeared before Mr J. R. Drummond, S.M., today.
Henry Mervyn Ben Snell, aged 37, was convicted and remanded for a week for sentence.
Detective Sergeant J. Butterworth Mid that Snell was employed as a senior clerk at Onehunga and on occasions worked as a teller in the savings bank division. Over a period, SneU retained six deposit slips which totalled $4OOO from deposits he received. Later, Snell checked through ledgers to find an account which had not been active for some time. He withdrew $4OO from this. He later approached the supervisor and admitted the last offence.
Snell had Mid he was not sure why he started taking the money—money lost all value to him and he just could not stop. He had nothing to show for it: it had just been frittered away.
He had gone voluntarily to the Auckland police station and admitted the other offence involving $4OOO.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31676, 11 May 1968, Page 40
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