LIVED BEYOND HIS MEANS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 10, 6 October 1927, Page 8

LIVED BEYOND HIS MEANS

TRAVELLER BEFORE THE COURT

That he had been forced to convert the money to his own use because he had lived beyond his means for some considerable time was the excuse put forward by Thomas Victor Crease, a traveller, aged 41, when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with committing theft of £656 2s. sd. by failing to place that sum in the Union Bank of Australia to the credit of Messrs. Whiteaway and Co., a firm of English soft goods merchants. In a statement made to Detective Murray, Crease stated that in 1924 he began to live beyond his means, with the result that he had to take some of the firm’s money to meet his requirements. “I have been very worried,” continued the statement, “and have been expecting this for some time I am only too pleased to have the matter cleared up, and hope to be able to make restitution.”

Detective Murray gave evidence that accused had given every possible assistance to the police. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Au application made by Mr. A. B. Sievwright to have bail renewed in the sum of £250 with one similar surety was refused by Messrs. J. A. McGrath and F. G. Cray, J.P.’s, who were on the bench.