ROBBED EMPLOYER
Year’s Imprisonment For
Salesman
A motor salesman and clerk, Graham Gibson Douglas Rice, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment with hard labour by Mr. Justice Quilliam in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, for failing to account for money, forging and uttering. Mr. W. 11. Birks- appeared for the Crown, and Mr. R. L. A. Oresswell for Rice.
The five charges arose from the same set of circumstances, eaid Mr. Cresswell. The first offence was the initial theft of £2O, and the others were attempts to conceal it.
His Honour: Are you aware that he forged the name of a young girl In the office who might have got into serious trouble? He did not scruple to risk her reputation. To Rice, his Honour said the crime was a very serious one. “You set about in a very mean and deliberate way to rob your employer. You ingeniously forged a document —you wrote a letter which might have involved a young girl in serious consequences. You have a very bad record, and your previous convictions show that you must pay the penalty of-your crime.”
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 71, 16 December 1938, Page 8
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