“EXCEPTIONAL CASE”
Postmaster’s Thefts PROBATION GRANTED By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, August 31. Remarking that where men pleaded, guilty to, or were convicted of, offences against the Post Office Act, the usual course taken by the courts was to impqse a term of imprisonment, Mr. Justice Herdman to-day placed Hudson Gilfillan, aged 46, on two years’ probation. Accused, who was postmaster at Epsom, had admitted two charges of theft of £3O, the property of the Postmaster-General. “I have gone very carefully through this case and I am quite satisfied it is an exceptional case,” said his Honour. He was satisfied the illness in his family had distracted the prisoner. “The Probation Officer states that your wife has been ill, also one of your children, and that you have been distracted. I will admit you to probation for a term of two years.”
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 288, 1 September 1931, Page 10
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