EMPLOYERS' MONEY TAKEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18710, 16 May 1924, Page 4

EMPLOYERS' MONEY TAKEN.

PLEA OF DOMESTIC WORRY.

SPIEITUALIST AND WIFE.

Defalcations amounting to £44 were rev vealed in a case heard before Mr. J. W. "Poynton, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday.. Harold Samuel Ibsen Hendricksen, aged 30 (Mr. Hall Skelton), admitted having failed to account for certain sums of money he had collected as an employee of the firm of F. and W. Carbines, dairymen., .. '.;.' '. ';■" ;-y-°i The police stated that accused Siad been employed as a milk retailer by the firm far eight months, at a wage of £3 18a per week, with a bonus.' He had been authorised to, collect moneys- on the firm's be-'• flialf, but forborne time had failed to pay certain sums. to the office. He s was a married man with one child. ;',' Counsel stated that domestic trouble largely accounted v for accused's v.lapse, addition to which he was a sufferer from rheumatic fever, contracted alb the -war. Accused's wife have been influenced by a local, spiritualist, who had put the suggestion into her head that her husband would die and that'she would be married three times. The spiritualist had further assured her she, would Obtain grounds for divorce, though the idea was beyond credibility. She had left accused's home and again returned several times in the las six months. A few days ago she brought the accused to Court, the case being summarily dismissed. Accused had withheld from the office small sums of: money with which to pay his bills, intending to make good the defalcations in time, and he had already paid the amount of the,defalcations into counsel's trust account.'. . ... ....... <* ..."-, Accused was admitted to probation for two years, restitution to be mada£forth»• with. ■'■ ''.-'.,- ; '",■.'■'■'.•. %■:■' ,v;.!v. ' ■/ . ' ' . ,4 .