COUP FRUSTRATED
COUNTY CLERK'S LAPSE
TWO TEAKS' DETENTION
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NELSON, This Day. Gilbert Owen Ellis, formerly clerk to the Collingwood County Council, who pleaded guilty to the theft of £.846 14s 2tf, the property of the council, was sentenced to-day to two years' detention, for reformative purposes. His Honour said that apparently the prisoner for some time had been taking su.ms of money from the council, and thjtj; he then determined to make a coup. It was carefully thought out. He had coldly and callously decided to desert his wife and with the proceeds of the money to go off to America with another woman. The fact was discovered by a letter written by the prisoner to the woman which had fallen into the hands of the police.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 6 December 1930, Page 9
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130COUP FRUSTRATED Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 6 December 1930, Page 9
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