SALESMAN IMPRISONED
ORDERS FOR WOOD AND COAL MONEY NOT PAID OVER [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION'] WELLINGTON, Monday On a charge of failing to account to Henry Bray for £5 9s 3d and on three charges of obtaining £1 3s 6d by false pretences, Ezekiel John Read, aged 51, salesman, appeared before Mr. W. F. StiHwell, S.M., in the Polico Court today. The police said that accused was employed by Bray to collect orders for wood and coal on a commission basis, but in the case of several orders he kept the money, although Bray delivered the coal. On two other occasions he collected money for wood and coal but did not give the orders to anyone, and in one case he received 16s from a woman and gave in the order, but not the money, to another coalman. At the time he took three orders, which were not fulfilled, Read was not connected with Bray or any other coal merchant. Accused was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on the first charge and was convicted and discharged on the others.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21576, 22 August 1933, Page 12
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