“BRAZEN EFFRONTERY.”

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6602, 21 May 1925, Page 6

“BRAZEN EFFRONTERY.”

YOUNG GIRL’S LAPSE OTHERS UNDER SUSPICION "These thefts have been going on for some time, but like Caesar’s wife the defendant was above suspicion,” said Chief-Detective Kemp at the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, when a young girl, whose name was ordered to be suppressed by the Magistrate, Mr C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M., pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of £6 1/11, the property of the Wellington Building and Construction Company. The chief-dctective said that the defendant was employed as a typiste by the above firm, and was commissioned at different periods to pay out small amounts. Some of these she had appropriated.

“The most wicked part about the offences was the persistent brazen effrontery of the defendant, who said that she had paid the moneys into these firms. This had put others under suspicion. She also committed thefts from the wages while the lady accpuntant’s back was turned, and the accountant, who Was in none too good circumstances, had to make up the deficits out of her own pocket. The defendant comes from a rather Respectable family, and there is nothing previously against her.” “I hope this will be a lesson to you, young lady,” said the Magistrate when he convicted her, and ordered her to come up for sentence when called upon. '