THEFT ADMITTED
CANVASSER REMANDED FOR , • SENTENCE.
.. -Two charges of committing theft by fraudulently converting to his own use various sums of money, totalling £54 3s 9d, received from policy-holders in the Australian Mutual Provident Society, Wellington, were admitted by Robert Bruce Brosnan, a canvasser, aged 26, in the Magistrate'!! Court to-day. Chief-Detective Ward said that since March last the accused had been employed as a canvasser by the society. His duties were to call upon policy-holders and collect their premiums. Between Ist October and 15th October he collected £54 3a 9d, and failed to account for it to the Bociety. The accused was a single man, contended the Chief Detective, and came from Christchurch last March. So far as was known, he had no previous convictions for dishonesty, but he had been fined £10 in May at Christchurch for being drunk and disorderly. The accused had nothing to say when asked to explain the charge*, and Mr. E. Page, S.M., said that he would remand him for sentence till Tuesday. Bail was allowed in the imm of £100, with a similar surety.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 109, 4 November 1926, Page 13
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182THEFT ADMITTED Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 109, 4 November 1926, Page 13
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