HARD LABOUR TERM
(Press Assn.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 27. “This is a most lamentable case, as bad as it could possibly be, of. a man high up in the department with a substantial salary taking advantage of his position to rob bis employers. It was a grave and deliberate fraud, with no mitigation.” So said Mr Justice Blair, in the Supreme Court today, in sentencing James Demot Walsh, aged 55, clerk, for theft of £462 when a servant of the Social Security Department. Counsel said prisoner had otherwise led a blameless life. Following an accident 18 years ago he had become nervous about the future. Prisoner wvas sentenced to three years’ hard labour.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 256, 27 September 1945, Page 6
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112HARD LABOUR TERM Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 256, 27 September 1945, Page 6
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