CHARGE OF THEFT
canvasser pleads not GUILTY. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. IP«r Pre** Association.) Wellington. December 30. Richard George Clifton, canvasser, aged 20, pleaded not guilty to-day to a charge of theft of money while a servant of Cash Orders Ltd., and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. It is alleged that in statements to the police Clifton admitted stealing the office key to a strong-room and having a duplicate made, and that he incriminated two men, who, he declared, used the key and subsequently gave him some of the proceeds of tie theft. In a separate statement to the police, however, he said he alone was concerned with the theft- Bail was allowed on the accused’s bond of £2OO and one surety of £2OO or two of £lOO each. He was ordered to report to the police daily.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 14, 30 December 1930, Page 5
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