Married Woman Admits Theft Of £1691

Chronicle (Levin), 9 June 1948, Page 4

Married Woman Admits Theft Of £1691

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WELLINGTON, June 9. The theft of £1091 7$ 10d from the Wellington Co-operative Taxi Qwner-drivers' Society, Ltd., and the Colonial Mutual Life A&§urance Society, Ltd., was admitted in the Magistrate's Court today by Iris Lilian Richardson, aged 44, married. She was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Two charges were preferred against accused. The first involved the theft of £1631 9s 6d between September 12, 1947, and May li of this year from tRe'Taxi Society, and the second charge concerned the theft of the remaining sum from the Colonial Mutual Assuranee Society. In a statement to the police, accused said she had taken ' the money fqr gambling qn racehorses. She had also been in debt to money lenders because of previpus gambling losseg. At first she took only a little money .for betting, but as •her.losses increased she took more1 and more in the hope that a big gamble would enable her to repay all she had taken. The £1631 9s 6d had been taken from the Taxi Soeiety's office payments, where accused was employgd, while the Colonial Mu-tual Soeiety's money was retained by accused from the insurance payments made to her ' by the taxi drivers, who were membe'rs of the society.