CANVASSER’S THEFTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1020, 10 July 1930, Page 11

CANVASSER’S THEFTS

ADMITTED TO PROBAUON “This' man has caused a good deal of expense and annoyance to his firm by putting in bogus orders in order to impress his employers with his ability as* a salesman.” * So Chief - Detective Hammond described Dugald Creighton, a canvasser, 37 years of age, who was charged at the Police Court today with failing to account to his firm for £1 5s received from Roy Clare on June 28. and £1 10s from Charles Davy and Sons, Ltd., on June 30. Creighton pleaded guilty to both charges. “Accused has been working for a firm of sign writers for a short time.” said Mr. Hammond. “He is an accountant by profession, but cannot got a job at his profession in the meanwhile,” Creighton, who was a married man. seemed to be trying hard, but had adopted strange methods, and had failed to account for the two sums of money mentioned in the charge. In addition, he put through orders to the value of £lO or £l2 for two different firms,” said the chief-detective. “When the order were filled by his firm, the people by whom they were allegedly ordered denied any knowledge of them. Creighton was trying to impress the firm with the fact that he was a good canvasser.” On the first charge, Mr. F. K. Hunt. S.M., admitted Creighton to probation for 12 months, and on the second count he was convicted and discharged.