“HAD BANKED £10,000000”

Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1931, Page 9

“HAD BANKED £10,000000”

CHARGED WITH THEFT OF £9O

CASHIER DENIES ALLEGATIONS.

WELLINGTON JURY DISAGREES.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Wellington, Last Night. After a retirement of about four hours the Supreme Court jury failed to agree upon a verdict in the ease in which Arthur Wallace Richardson, lormerly a cashier of the Wellington City Council rates office, was charged with theft as servant of £96 Is 2d. An application by the Crown for a retrial at the current session was granted. Richardson was allowed bail. Richardson in evidence said he had been employed by the council for nine years as cashier. During that time he had banked probably about £10,000,000 or more. Previously to that he had been on the staff of the Bank of New Zealand for about fourteen years. After the war, in which he suffered concussion and was badly wounded, he was pay sergeant to a hospital in England. Richardson said he had not been before a court previously. He denied he had stolen the money, and said an allegation of theft had never been made against him previously. He was not a racing man and only rarely took a drink” His circumstances were not poor and he had no occasion to steal.