£1,106 GONE

Evening Star, Issue 20778, 28 April 1931, Page 9

£1,106 GONE

CHARGE AGAINST BANK CLERK (Pen United Press Association.] j CHRISTCHURCH, April 28. Robert Andrew Stewart, aged fortyone, a bank clerk employed by the National Bank, pleaded not guilty this morning to the theft of £1,106, the property of Pierce Brothers, and was committed for trial. . John Pierce, a grocer, explained the system by which accused, who lived near him, had been entrusted with the receipts of the shop every Tuesday, and Saturday for banking. Witness received back the counterfoils of the slips. This month witness received a statement from the hank concerning his account, showing it to ho overdrawn by £228. Ho queried this, and discovered that £1,105 had not been paid in. The police handed in a statement in which accused said that owing to sickness he got deeper and deeper into debt, and to retrieve his position ha resorted to gambling on races. He admitted the defalcations the police alleged.

CRIMINAL SITTINGS

TfMARU The criminal sittings opened before Mr Justice Adams. _ The grand jury returned true bills in the cases of Thomas Henry CoS and John Henry, Fitzgerald of manslaughter and attempted robbery with violence; William Watson, arson at Temuka; and David Bell, negligent driving of a car, thereby causing the death of Vera Goodeve.