COURTS AND OFFENCES.
POSTAL OFFICIAL’S OFFENCE. (BY TEiiEGBAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, March 10. William Ernest Carrington, formerly an official in the Dunedin Post Office Savings Bank, ple-aded guilty at the Police Court to forging the name of M. McMillan to four withdrawal slips for a total of £6lO. He was committed for sentence. ' ,In a statement the accused said he was a single man, aged 26. Four or five years ago he contracted a certain disease and got no sleep owing to the pain. He commenced drinking, got low financially, and decided to get some money to go to Australia. He saw that Miss McMillan’s account had not been operated upon since 1921 and that she was in credit over £6OO. He signed the withdrawal slips, collected the money, which he spent on drink and motor drives with bad women at Dunedin. When he finished operating on Miss McMillan’s account there remained a credit of £9 odd.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 March 1927, Page 8
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157COURTS AND OFFENCES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 March 1927, Page 8
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