THEFTS BY SECRETARY
MONEY USED FOR GAMBLING ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 13. William Henry Pollock, aged 53 years, pleaded guilty to-day to charges of stealing £5Ol from a timber company which employed him as secretary. He was committed for sentence. In a statement to the police bollock said that after coining from Wellington lie had to abandon the house he had been buying there. He lost an equity of about £6OO. In Auckland ho found himself in difficulties, and after March, 1931, he took small sums, most of which he gambled away. The position got gradually worse, and lie began betting in larger sums, but only got more deeply involved.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22005, 14 July 1933, Page 6
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116THEFTS BY SECRETARY Otago Daily Times, Issue 22005, 14 July 1933, Page 6
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