GAOL FOR POLICEMAN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23067, 18 June 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)

GAOL FOR POLICEMAN

THEFTS FRdM COMRADES "MUST BE ABOVE SUSPICION" Admonished for carelessness in losing his warrant card, a London Metropolitan Police constable found later that it had been stolen by a fellow officer, with other property, from their lodgings. That was stated by Mr. R. E. Seaton, prosecuting, at Westminster, when Police Constable John Marshall, aged 21, a native of Redding, Mutrheau. Stirlingshire, attached to Gerald lioaa police station, was sentenced to sis months' imprisonment for theft, Marshall, who joined the Metropolitan Force last year after working tor a Falkirk hosiery firm, pleaded guilty to three charges of stealing from other constables at his lodgings. Marshall was said to have told De-tective-Inspector McDouat: "It was my ambition to get on in the police, but now that is all finished. 1 don t know why I have done this. I was not short of money." , „ ~ „ The magistrate, Mr. Ronald 1 oweli, told Marshall he had never been in trouble before, but the fact remained that he was a police officer, who must be a man of honour and above suspicion,