BANK CLERK’S THEFTS
NEARLY SEVENTY THOUSAND POUNDS FIVE YEARS’ GAOL. BRISBANE, August 25. Pleading guilty to the theft of £69,105 belonging to the National Bank of Australasia, Cecil Roberts Trotman Foote, a bank clerk, aged 37, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. The Crown Prosecutor told the Court that Foote once had wagered £9BOO in one day on 51 horses all over Australia. His biggest betting loss in one day was £5700. At the original hearing in the Police Court on June 28th, the police said that Foote had admitted that he had paid about £50,000 to one bookmaker, and between £15,000 and £20,000 to another.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 142, 26 August 1938, Page 3
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