PAID BACK BUT TOO LATE

NZ Truth, Issue 1230, 27 June 1929, Page 5

PAID BACK BUT TOO LATE

———♦ — —— ■ .. Friendly Act Ends In Prison i(From "N.Z. Truth's" Wellington Rep.). When . Oliver William Joseph Wright, clerk m the WanganuiP.O.' Savings Bank, found that a friend for whom he had stolen £80 from ; his department would not, or could not, repay the money, he resigned his position and came.to' Wellington to try to raise the amount. • LIB was successful, and was actually **. on the service car about to return to Wanganui, when he was v arrested. When . Wright appeared before Mr, Justice McGregor for sentence, he was * represented Mr. ,H. F. O'Leary, who made an eloquent appeal for leniency on behalf of the prisoner. Mr. O'Leary informed the court, that Wright had borrowed the money for a friend, who had lot him down. Wright ' resigned his position, thinking that the superannuation which he .would draw would enable him to repay the department. There was,. however, a hitch m getting the. money, and.he .came to, .'Wel-lington-'arid'.raJs^d just under £100. He was just leaving to go to Wanganui. to repay the money when he was arrested. ' ' ; ■■■•'.. In answer to, his Honor, the Crown Prosecutor'stated that the police did not doubt the, truth of the prisoner's statement., „..:; .'".. .:, ..;",•.. / ' ' His Honor: .The m.oney has cer-' . tainly been'-paid back, but that does not purge the transgression. . A sentence of three months' imprisonment was imposed. 1(■ ■■ ———«^«— —— ■ ■■ ' ■ ' ■■'