FAILURE TO ACCOUNT

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 11

FAILURE TO ACCOUNT

PROBATION FOR CLERK

Pleading guilty to failing to account for £18 18s 3d to the A.M.P. Society, tnereby committing theft, George Henry Landymore a clerk and labourer, appeared before Mr. J L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates Court W,. McLennan, prosecuting, said that the accused was employed by the company to collect premiums on commission Jasis orty. He failed to account for £18 18s 3d, and there was a sum of £13 5s lOd-still owing, the remaining £5 12s 5d being part of commission. He had not previousy come under the notice of the The accused, on his own behalf, said he had actually lost £7 out of his pocket, and the remainder of the money had been in his possession since. The company had said that unless he had all the money paid by a certain time there would be a police charge, and in view of the fact that it had to be all or nothing, in the case of a charge he had decided it would be nothing. Landymore was convicted and placed on probation for a period of 12 months, a condition being that he repay the amount of £13 5s lOd to the company. • ____