THEFT OF MONEY

Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 June 1933, Page 5

THEFT OF MONEY

PROBATION ALLOWED. AUCKLAND, Thursday. A former employee of the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association, Sydney Janies Smith, 42, a clerk, pleaded guilty when charged in the S.M. Court with stealing three sums amounting to £l2 ISs 4d, the property of the Association, and two further sums totalling £4 6s Sd, the property of a war pensioner. Detective-Sergeant O’Sullivan said that until last month accused had been employed' by the Association as accountant at a. salary of £4 a week. For a short period he was acting-secretary at a weekly salary of . £5. On three different days last month he stole money belonging to the Association. Some of the money was collected by 'accused on behalf of a war pensioner. In asking for leniency, Mr Aekins said that recently accused was wrong; fully held to be responsible for the loss of one of the Association’s books. He was suspended, and this worried him, as he had been a loyal servant. He later suffered a nervous breakdown, and was in hospital. It was while he was in a state of muddle that , the offences were committed.

The magistrate, Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., admitted accused to probation for 12 months, and ordered him to make restitution. —(P.A.)