MISAPPROPRIATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1106, 20 April 1911, Page 6

MISAPPROPRIATION.

CAMPBELL PLEADS GUILTY. .(Uγ. TclczraDh.-Pross Association I Dunedin, April 19. John Aloysius Campbell appeared atth« City Police Court to-day on three chargoE of having, while employed as receiving teller at the Dunedin branch of the Bank of Australasia, received the. following Mims on account of the bank and fraudulently converted them to his own use:— 2s. lOtl., from George Simpson, on November 3, 1909; JCHG 13s. 5d., from J. Peterson and Co., on November 24, 1S109; ,and .C 76 ss. ii;, from J. Peterson and Co., .on'J'amiary 5, 1011." In giving evidence- on the second charge, John Peterson, grocer, said that on February 17 accused went (o 'witness's shop and said he was going to" Palmofslon North within ten.minutes.' Witness replied, "You have, no (imo to waste." Accused then said to witness: "There is an amount, of about .£2OO not placed to your credit in the Bank of Australasia." Witness asked: "How did that happen?" Accused replied: "There is another party in the know as well as myself. He has gone, to Sydney." Accused added that both he and the man who had gone to Sydney were guilty. Accused asked witness not to put in his (witness's) old pass book, but. to ask the bank for a new one. Witness refused to do so, and accused left saying: "I will write to you within a week?' Witness consented to that arrangement. Accused did not write at all, but within a week witness-received the following telegram from Palmerston North:—"Don't send old book. Get new one. Letter following.—Campbell." Witness subsequently found that X 146 13s. sd. had not been placed to credit of his account at the bank. Other evidence having Wen given, accused pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence on all charges. Chief Detective Herbert put in a written admission made by accused in Wellington to the bank's inspector. In this accused acknowledged having taken credits and destroyed slips for the amounts mentioned in tho charges. . He also stated therein that these were the only amounts misappropriated, and that he owed debts to tradesmen amounting to J!3O or JCiO. '