CLERK SENTENCED.
Per Press Association. NELSON, Dec. 6
A former clerk to the Collingwood County Council, Gilbert Owen Ellis, who pleaded guilty to the theft of £B4O 14s 2d, the property of the council, was sentenced to-day to two years’ detention for reformative purposes. His Honour said that apparently the prisoner for some time had been taking sums of money from the council, and that lie then determined to make a coup. • It was carefully thought out. He had coldly and callously decided to desert his wife and with the proceeds of the money to go off to America with another woman. The fact was discovered by a letter written by the prisoner to the woman, which bad fallen into the hands of the police.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 7, 8 December 1930, Page 3
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125CLERK SENTENCED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 7, 8 December 1930, Page 3
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