EMBEZZLEMENT OF £472
AN ACCOUNTANT SENTENCED.
THE CURSE OF GAMBLING
By Telegraph.—Press Association
NAPIER, Wednesday
In the Supreme Court the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, sentenced Montague Thomas Sabine Pasley, of Hastings, to seven years' treatment for embezzlement of £172 from die firm of Iloadlcy, Son and Stewart, of which he was accountant. Sir Robert said he understood the total defalcations amounted to no less than £12,000. Accused had given way to gambling, which was a great curse, ruining hundreds of people in New Zealand.
James Donghie, for breaking and entering at Waipawa, was sentenced to four years' reformative treatment.
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15025, 23 August 1922, Page 5
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