SADDEST CASE ON RECORD.
SALARY TOTALLY INADEQUATE. Wellington, Aug. 20. Horace Arthur Cramond. sometime branch manager at Wellington for Messrs. Cook and Son, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to the embezzlement of £1435 from his employers. Cramond’s counsel said it was the saddest ease on record. Accused had increased the local business by’ leaps and bounds until £50,000 passed through the office annually. His average salary was £302, taking account of bonuses and commission. He had been 25 years with the firm, and 14 years in Wellington. The Crown Prosecutor agreed that the salary was totally inadequate imder the circumstances in which the reeused was employed. Accused was remanded until Monday for sentence.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 210, 20 August 1914, Page 6
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114SADDEST CASE ON RECORD. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 210, 20 August 1914, Page 6
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