FAILURE TO ACCOUNT
BAKER'S DRIVER ADMITS DEFAL-
CATIONS.
(By Telegraph.)
(Specjal to "The Evening r»«t.")
AUCKLAND, This Day. Forty-eight charges of failing to account for a total of £38 8s 6d, collected in the course of his services as a baker's driver, were admitted by William Murphy, aged 28 years. His employment lasted only three weeks, as he failed to put in an appearance on 7th November.
The chief detective remarked that Murphy went to Wellington on that date with a married woman, Whom he persuaded to leave her husband. The woman had two children. The firm's inspector, on going round, discovered shortages ranging from l s 7d to £7 18s. Murphy had been previously employed at New Plymouth, where he converted from £10 to £12 of another baker's money to his own use, but the matter was not reported to the police.
The accused said that he had repaid the Taranaki defalcations, and was willing to repay the Auckland amounts if given an opportunity.
He is to be sentenced on Monday.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 141, 11 December 1926, Page 10
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