EMPLOYER ROBBED

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 March 1930, Page 2

EMPLOYER ROBBED

PRISON FOR WAR WIDOW. i LONDON, January 19. Defalcations by a woman, amounting to £1,196, were mentioned at Marlborough Street yesterday in connection with four charges of embezzlement and stealing money against Ella Edgar, aged 34, book-keeper, St. Paul’s Road, N. She pleaded guilty. Mr. W. B. Frampton, for the prosecution, said the, woman was employed as a cashier by a costumier and milliner. Her systematic thefts were such that when her employer examined his banking account in December, he found it nearly overdrawn and with not enough money to meet his cheques, while other customers for whom cheques had been drawn had not been paid. Detective McGrath said Mrs. Edgar was a war widow without a pension. For six or seven years she had been keeping company with a married man. In North London public houses she was known as a “good spender,” by treating all and sundry. In this way she had squandered the money. Her wages were £2 12s 6d a week. Mr. Dummett sentenced her to four months’ imprisonment on the first charge, and one month each on the three other charges, to run concurrently.