CHARGE AGAINST BANK CLERK
ALLEGED DEFALCATIONS OVER £ll,OO. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Robert Andrew Stewart (41) r a bank clerk employed by the National Bank, pleaded not guilty this morning to the theft of £llO6, the property of Pierce Brothers and was committed for trial.
John Pierce, a grocer, explained the system by which the accused, who lived near him, had been entrusted with the receipts of the shop every Tuesday and Saturday for banking, bringing witness back the counterfoils of the slips. This month witness received a statement from the bank concerning his account showing it overdrawn by £2280. He queried this and discovered that £llOs had not been paid in. The police handed in a statement in which accused said that, owing to sickness he got deeper and deeper into debt and to retrfeve his position he resorted to gambling on races. He admitted the defalcations the police alleged.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 April 1931, Page 5
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