THEFT PROVED
— •* MISAP'PBOPRIATED MONEY
Found guilty of two charges of theft of money totalling £14, Leslie John Withers, aged' 22, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment on each charge by Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day. The evidence showed that the accused had inserted an advertisement in a newspaper for a taxi driver and he had given three men the position, taking from each of them £7 as a fidelity bond. He had been about to enter into similar arrangements with a fourth man, but had not gone through with the business. Tho three men had all become dissatisfied with their dealings with the accused, and in response to the requests of one man he returned him his £7. To the other two men the money had not been returned, the accused using it for his own purposes. "His general character as far as honesty is concerned is not very satisfactory from our point of view," Snb-lu-spoctor Ward told the Magistrate. The sentences, are to be concurrent. Mr. A. J. Mazengarb appeared for the accused.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1931, Page 11
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178THEFT PROVED Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1931, Page 11
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