FAILURE TO ACCOUNT.
A PLEA OF GUILTY. (Pee United Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, January 23. In the Police Court to-day Thomas Newton Kitchener Sommerville, inspector for the British Traders’ Insurance Company, pleaded guilty to failure to account for the sum of £430 8s to the company, and was committed for sentence at the next sitting of the Supreme Court. Bail was allowed in £IOO. The evidence showed that accused had been employed for four years as inspector both for Timaru and Invercargill, and on December 19 he telephoned the Dunedin manager asking him to accept his resignation, and, in reply to a question, stated the shortage in the cash was due principally to extra expense on account of his wife’s illness. When arrested, the accused made a statement to a detective admitting the offences, and stating that prior to his wife’s illness the accounts were all in order, and portions of amounts received subsequently were used to meet expenses.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21242, 24 January 1931, Page 12
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