A FOOLISH THEFT.
RAILWAY CLERK’S OFFENCE x<WELLINGTON, February .7... “This is an extremely stupid theft, and the penalty you have incurred already seems to be heavy enough,” observed Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day when a young clerk named Edlcy Richard Hicks Palmer,- aged 28, pleaded guilty to the theft of two postal notes valued at 6s, the property of James Arthur Davison. Chief Detective Ward said that Palmer, who was a married man with one child, wanted some money to pay a life insurance premium, and stole the notes from the drawer of a fellow clerk.” He has never been before the court previously, and has been in the employ of the New Zealand Railway Department for six years,” said the Chief Detective. “This offence means that he has lost his position for the sake of 65.” In view of the circumstances and tho punishment already incurred by the accused the Magistrate imposed a nomiral fine of £2, and ordered the restitution of the stolon money.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3805, 15 February 1927, Page 68
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171A FOOLISH THEFT. Otago Witness, Issue 3805, 15 February 1927, Page 68
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