THEFTS FROM BANK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 68, 22 March 1935, Page 8

THEFTS FROM BANK

CLERK ADMITS GUILT LARGE SUM INVOLVED. [ Per Press Association. J AUCKLAND, March 21. John Wesley Dexter, aged 26, a bank clerk, admitted in the Police Court today that, while employed by the Bank of New South Wales, he stole between August, 1932, and February 1, aa3s, sums totalling £1206. Another bank clerk in evidence said that on February 4 he was relieving at a city branch and at about 11.30 at night had occasion to go to the cloakroom for matches. In the darkness he put his hand in the pocket of a coat handing from the wall, thinking it was his own coat. In the pocket he found a number of letters z>f credit sups. He examined tne bank dooks and found in some cases that tne amounts shown on the slips had been entered in customers’ passbooks, but not in the ledgers. He also examined the tellers’ books and found that the sums shown on the credit slips had not been entered there. He reported to the manager. A detective produced a statement by accused admitting everything. He said that about two years ago tnrough illness in the family he was in financial difficulties and began stealing money paid in by customers. His method was to suppress the credit slips, manipulate the ledgers, and at the weekly balance deduct shortages irom the larger accounts to Balance the amounts stolen from the smaller ones. He kept a private note of the moneys he took. As time went on he got deeper into the mire and gambled in an attempt to retrieve his position. He had since made restitution of ..’.9. Accused was committed for sentence.