THEFT OF PUBLIC MONEY
SENTENCE IN CHRISTCHUROH
CASE,
(IT lILIBIUPI.—PRISS ASSOCIATION.)
OHRISTCHUROH, This Day
At the Supreme Court, Patrick John, Butler, who had pleadedi guilty to stealing £2033 4s lid from the G'hristchurch office of' trie State Coal Department, was sentenced, to two years' reformative treatment in the Invercargill institution. Mr. Justice Herdmam said the' offenoe was a graVe one, and prisoner could. not be admitted to probation. Frauds in the Public Service were becoming, frequent, and the onily way of stopping them was to''punish the offenders • where the cTilnes | were exposed.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 49, 26 August 1921, Page 8
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92THEFT OF PUBLIC MONEY Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 49, 26 August 1921, Page 8
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