THEFT BY CLERK
Three Years’ Hard Labour
(N.Z.P.A.) AUCKLAND, Sept 07 "This is a most lamentable case It Is as bad as it could possibly be of a man high up is the department with a substantial salary taking advantage of his position to.rob his employers It was a grave and deliberate fraud with no mitigation." so said Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court to-day in sentencing' James Dermot Walsh, aged 55 a clerk, for the theft, of £462 when a servant of the Social Security Department. Counsel said prisoner had otherwise led a blameless life, but after an accident 18 rears ago he had become nervous about the future. Prisoner was sentenced Io three years' imprisonment with hard labour.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23317, 28 September 1945, Page 4
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121THEFT BY CLERK Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23317, 28 September 1945, Page 4
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