THEFT CHARGES
MANAGER ACQUITTED.
(Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, August 10.
Magistrate Page, in a reserved judgment dismissed charges of stealing records and receiving electrical fittings, preferred against Sidney Frederick William Vause. Defendant was head of the gramophone department of his firm’s business, and was authorised to give away for the purposes of the firm’s business such records as he thought fit. “To constitute theft, the goods must be taken without colour of right,” said the Magistrate. “In regard to the electrical apparatus, the evidence showed that for many years defendant, who was the only one in firm’s employ possessing technical knowledge on the point, had made a practice, with the knowledge of his employers, of taking home and testing appliances whether of his own firm or other firms with which they did business.” He was not satisfied that defendant’s action in receiving the goods was other than honest.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1928, Page 2
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