ALLEGED THEFT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 10

ALLEGED THEFT

OVER £,1100 INVOLVED

ACCOUNTANT CHARGED

Sums of moi icy totalling £1120 are mentioned in a eh arge of theft against Albert Kellerway, ao countant, aged 37, employed by the Austa alian Mutual Provident Society. Kellerway, who appeared before Mr. T. B. M'Neil, S, M., at the Magistrate's Court to-day, to et nswer charges of theft from his employens over a period extending from 4th Oci ;ober, 1927, to 30th October, 1930 was remanded until Ist April. -Bail was fixed vi: £250, with one surety of £250 or two of £125 each. In making an application tor bail, Mr. A B. Sievii Tight, who appeared for the accused, said that there were certain matters concert ing his client's business to be attended to, and for that reason he would ask for the suppression of the accuseds name. . , Mr. M'Ne il: "The offence is an exceedingly'seriom . one, involving a large amount of money, and I don't think it is a case where I can suppress the name." Sub-Inspe« .tor Ward did not oppose bail and said tW it the accused would have had ample opportunity to abscond if he had wished to iIo so. Since he had been interviewed bj y the police he had given every assistance i> o arrive at the amount of the alleged defi* Ication.