LAND SALESMAN’S CRIME
CHEQUE FOR DEPOSIT RETAINED.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night.
In the Supreme Court to-day Charles Henry Lee Walter was convicted on a charge of having received flflO on terms requiring him to pay it to John McLeod and having failed to do so, thereby committing theft. Walter, acting as a land salesman, receivd a cheque for £lOO deposit on a sale of McLeod’s property, lie cashed tho cheque, but failed to hand over either the total sum to his principal or the total sum less commission, although frequent applications were made to him for it.
Walter was sentenced to imprisonment for 18 months.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1930, Page 9
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