VERDICT OF GUILTY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20539, 14 February 1935, Page 7

VERDICT OF GUILTY.

Relief Works Clerk in Dock. Per Press Association. WANGANUI. February 13. A verdict of guilty on twenty counts of theft as a servant and guilty of the destruction of a book of accounts with intent to defraud was returned by the jury to-day in the case in which Norman Leslie Tyler, relief works clerk of the Waitotara County Council, was charged with misappropriation of moneys belonging to his employers. The jury added a rider to the effect that it was unanimously of opinion that Tyler did not misappropriate the moneys for his own personal gain. Three of four young men who pleaded guilty recently to breaking and entering the house of C. G. Russell, at Nukumaru, and stealing a portion of one of the most valuable private collections of coins in the Dominion, were sentenced in the Supreme Court today by Mr Justice Blair. George Doran, nineteen, who was concerned in a number of offences, was given three years’ reformative detention, and Arthur Arly Black, seventeen, and John Spencer Peachey, twenty-four, were both admitted to three years’ probation.