"LAMENTABLE SLIP"
THEFT FROM MAYOR'S FUND
(liy Telegraph.—Press Association.) | CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A man who for over forty years had an honourable record as a schoolmaster, who was a Justice of the Peact,, and who had been a Dominion representative for his church, pleaded guilty at the Magistrate's Court to a charge of theft'of 9s 3d from the Mayor's Relief Distress Fund on March 31. The accused was Johann Voss, aged 66, a retired schoolmaster, of Spreydon. Mr. E. D. Mosley convicted and discharged the accused, who on the Magistrate's suggestion agreed "to contribute £5 to the Mayor's coal and blanket fund. The : Magistrate said that the lamentable slip was due to something which might be called premature senility. The accused had been iemployed in checking collectors' boxes on the day of the Mayor's relief appeal and was noticed acting in a suspicious manner.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 109, 11 May 1933, Page 12
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