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TEN YEARS’ THEFTS AMAZING STORY OF FRAUD SYDNEY, March 4. An amazing fraud was rcveaiva when William Buddee, a clerk employed by W. D. and H. O. Wills, Limited, pleaded guilty to embezzling a smarr sum. Counsel for Wills stated that defalcations had been going on for ten years, and the firm had lost £4OOO a year without knowing it, owing to falsification of the books. The defalcations amounted to £39,000, and accused, who was remanded for sentence, told the Court that he had lost it at the races. Buddee wtas convicted of embeszlcment and was sentenced to five years’ gaol.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19783, 5 March 1927, Page 8
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103EASY MONEY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19783, 5 March 1927, Page 8
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