COUNTY CLERK’S EMBEZZLEMENT. WELLINGTON, July 5. At the Supreme Court to-day George William Cobb, county clerk at Featherston, for embezzling county moneys, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. The judge said: “You have been systematically thieving for the past seven years, and have abused your trust, and under the circumstances I have no alternative but to impose a sentence of imprisonment.’’
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Otago Witness, Issue 3513, 12 July 1921, Page 38
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