THEFTS ALLEGED

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 May 1928, Page 2

THEFTS ALLEGED

PUBLIC TRUST OFFICIAL

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, May 30.

A charge of stealing money totalling £ 2/4/-, as funds of the Public Trust Office, was preferred against an employee in the office, aged 23, in the Police Court to-day. Accused was remanded and his name suppressed.

INSURANCE CO.’S EMPLOYEE

AUCKLAND, May 30

Algernon James Body, aged 56, was charged at the Police Court with filing to account for £lO/4/6, as fitads of the Southern Cross Insurance Coy. Accused was* remanded.

BOARDER ROBBED

CHRISTCHURCH, May 31

James Ford, 22, of Kaikoura, was admitted to two years’ probation, in the Magistrate’s Court this morning for the theft of £27 10s, the property of Mrs Thomas. Accused pleaded guilty. . ' ■ The Chief Detective said that the accused was the son of a licensee of one of the Kaikoura hotels. Mrs Thomas was a boarder at the hotel, and accused entered her room, and stole her bag. A STOLEN RING. ’ WELLINGTON, May 31. A steward’s theft of a ring from a parcel of jewellery which he was hiding for another man, was told in the Court to-day, when Albert Ayling, 44, pleaded guilty to the theft of a diamond ring, valued at £9, the property of Clark and Morris. The police alleged that two men, Charles Applebee and George McDonald. who were at present on remand, on a charge of breaking, entering and theft, had divided the stolen property. McDonald had given his share to accused for safe keeping, but accused, who was aware the jewellery was stolen, took one of the rings and pawned it. He was later arrested. He was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment.