THEFTS FROM EMPLOYER.
INSUFFICIENT WAGE ALLEGED. WELLINGTON, February 27. Gordon Francis M'Donald, aged 22, pleaded guilty to failing to account for sums totalling £l6 7s 6d, to the theft of £2, and of a motor car valued at £l5O. He was committed to the Supreme. Court for sentence.
The accused, who was arrested at a bush camp near Dannevirke, said that when he started work he w-as short ,of money. The money thefts were from his employer. It was hard to keep going on the wage he received, He saw he would be found out, and so he took the car, which belonged to Mr Herbert L. Evans. The accused said he had been all over Taranaki before going to Dannevirke; He had taken a wood-splitting contract at the camp.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 9
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