£7500 INVOLVED
ALLEGED THEFT FROM BANK (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, June 15. On Friday last it was discovered that a sum of £7500 was missing from the strongroom of the Bank of New Zealand at Mangaweka. The police were informed, and as the result of investigations by Detective-Sergeant J. K. Robertson and Detective James Murray, both of Wanganui, a single man, Maurice Edward Alexander, aged 32, employed as a teller in the bank, was arrested.
Alexander appeared before a Justice of the Peace charged that on June 10, being a servant in the employ of the bank, he did steal the sum of £7500, the property of the bank.
The accused was remanded to appear at Wanganui tomorrow. It is understood that the whole of the money has been recovered.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 10
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