Official Embezzlement.
COLONEL GUDGEON HAS TO SEND HIS NEPHEW TO GAOL. [By Telegraph—Pres3 Association.] Auckland, last night. The Star’s Ilaratonga correspondent states that the audit of the Government accounts has shown a deficiency of eleven hundred pounds. R. W. Gossett, Postmaster and Collector of Customs, is .£638 short, and E. C. Goodwin, Treasurer and t Secretary, £l6O short. Goodwin was ! killed by the explosion of a rocket. Gossett pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two years’ hard labor. Colonel Gudgeon, uncle oE the prisoner, refunded £.700 of the money embezzled. Colonel Gudgeon was also placed in the unpleasant pnsition of having to preside over the Court which sentenced his own nephew.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 195, 24 August 1901, Page 2
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