THEFT FROM HOTEL SAFE.
PORTER ADMITS OFFENCE. JBY JPXEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The theft of £ll2 from the safe of theCarlton Hotel, "Wellington, was admitted by a porter named Horace Clifford Allen, aged 25 years, in the Magistrate's Court to-day, before Messrs. J. Staples and J. W. Ellison, J.P.'s. Leslie James Trail, licensee of the hotel, said that in October last he had the bar book in which the. takings from the bars were entered by a lady clerk, made up and in consequence of the examination, he called in a solicitor to inspect his books. On the night of November 7 he placed £45 in the safe, locking up both the safe and the room in which the safe was kept and placing a piece of paper in the crack of the door. The next morning he found that £3 was missing from the safe and that the paper had disappeared. The accused was on duty on the night of November 7 and had in his possession two keys, either of which would have unlocked the .safe room door. The safe lock was defective.
The. accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail was allowed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19488, 18 November 1926, Page 17
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202THEFT FROM HOTEL SAFE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19488, 18 November 1926, Page 17
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