THEFT BY CLERK.
A PLEA OF GUILTY. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 6. Irregularities discovered during an audit resulted in Geoffrey Gould Wholly, aged 32, a clerk salesman for Walker and Hall, appearing in the Magistrate’s Court charged with the theft of £682 17s Id. For the employers the manager said accused had been employed since February, 1923, and was responsible for the cash book and customers’ ledger. He was granted a holiday in July and did not return to work, when, on an audit of the books the defalcation was found out.
Detective Walsh stated that accused surrendered himself at about midnight on July 27, and later admitted that the amount mentioned was the whole of his defalcations. None of the money had been recovered.
Accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supremo Court for sentence.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 August 1924, Page 5
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