ALLEGED £400 THEFTS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 3 May 1934, Page 6

ALLEGED £4OO THEFTS

CHARGES OF FORGERY ACCOUNTANT AND ORGANISER (By Telegraph—Press Association.! CHRIST CHURCH, May 2. Leslie Cecil Johnson, formerly accountant and organiser for the Gold IRand Taxi Company, in the Supreme ■Court to-day faced 24 charges of theft of moneys totalling £426 belonging to the proprietor of the company, C. S. Trillo, and eight charges of forgery. . Continuing his address, the Crown ■Prosecutor said that Johnson would fill in a cheque for, say, £3O and make the butt show £lO, taking the £2O for himself. He also forged receipts to show moneys had -been paid /although none had been paid. Johnson had admitted tfilling in the cheque butts but said he ■had lent Trillo money which Trillo would not repay, and he had adopted his own method to recover it. There was evidence of a deficiency of between £6OO and £7OO, and according to the books only £l5O was owing to Johnson; .Several witnesses were called by the Crown and several more have still to be called.