TRUST BETRAYED.
SERIES OF THEFTS. I WELLINGTON, This Day. When a. draper's assistant named Wilfred Albert Wootton appeared before Mr E. Page, S.M., for sentence on a charge of theft of material from James Smith, Ltd., the Probation Officer said he could not recommend probation. The Magistrate in sentencing Wootton to two months' imprisonment said that the public interest must be regarded. The accused had been in a position of trust and had committed a series of thefts from his employers. This class of offence was becoming too common. —Press Assn.
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Northern Advocate, 1 August 1924, Page 5
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