BANK CLERK’S DEFALCATION
ADMISSION OF THEFT OF £llOO. GAMBLING AT RACES THE CAUSE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, April 28. Robert Andrew Stewart, aged 41, a bank clerk employed by* the National Bank, pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate's Court this morning 7 to the theft of £1196, the property df Pierce Brothers, and was committed for trial .in the Supreme Court. . . John Pierce, a grocer, explained the system by which Stewart who lived near him, had been entrusted 'with the receipts of the shop every. Tuesday and Saturday for banking. Witness' received back counterfoils of slips. .This month witness received"' h . -tateinent from the Ixajik concerning tis account, showing that it was overdrawn by £228. He queried this, and discovered that £llO6 had not been paid in.' / The police handed in a statement in which accused that that owing tr sickness he got deeper and deeper into debt, and to retrieve his position ne resorted to gambling on races. He admitted the defalcations the police alleged. •
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 April 1931, Page 4
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