STOLE FROM CASH BOX
ACCOUNTANT PLEADS GUILTY SPENT THE MONEY ON DRINK. 1 COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. ( [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, June 22. Pleading guilty in the Police Court , to charges of stealing over £269 from ’ the Todd Motor Company, Francis L , Walter Gardner, aged 37, accountant, was committeed to the Supremo Court , for sentence. ‘ Gardner made a statement to the police in which he said he had a wife and one child. About the end of No 1 vember, 1929, he started to take money t from tho cash box and registered mail. . Since then he had been in tho habit of
taking various sums of money as they came in through the mail. “Practically all of the money taken by me was spent at an average rate of about £5 a wook in drinking,” read tho statement. “None of tho money went into mv home and I have not saved any of it. About six weeks ago L sent my wife and child away for a holiday with the intention of confessing the whole thing to the firm, but then 1 did not have the courage to do so. I cannot make restitution because T have no assets with the exception of
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 146, 23 June 1931, Page 7
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