CIVIL SERVANT’S THEFTS
v ADMITTED TO PROBATION (By Telegrapn.—Special to Times) AUCKLAND. Thursday Pleas that a civil servant prisoner should not be treated any more harshly than would other persons who had similarly offended were made by counsel, Dr" McElroy, when Robert Edward Sowter, a civil servant, admitted the theft of moneys as a servant. Mr Justice Fair: 1 do not act on a rule of treating civil servants differently from others who bave committed * offences when in a position of trust. •Counsel said prisoner, who has a wife and young family, took trust money to meet obligations entered into while his wages were small. He would lose all his superannuation and assured employment. liis Honour said it was very exceptional to grant probation in cases of breach of trust, but from what counsel said this case was exceptional. Prisoner would he released on probation for three years conditional on making full restitution, and paying £5 costs of prosecution
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20844, 30 June 1939, Page 9
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