New Plymouth Embezzlement Charges
NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 3. Not guiltv on all nine counts was tlie vonlict retnniod last night after the trial of Ralph Kric Piekering, aged 21 vears, fofmer assistant eashier, eliarged in the.Snpreme Court at New Plymouth with the tlieft. of £1571) 19s 11 while a servant of the New Plymouth Bo rough Council. The jury retired at -6.30 and returned at 8 p.m. ■' . ■■- Mr. Justice Hutchison. remanded Piekering for sentence on the -counts tu which he had earlier pleaded guilty. These are eight eouijts o£ forgery hy
a?lterm£ cluplicate hank lodg'ement slips relieving ,cashier ih the Borough and 'eight of oiferirig them to the Treasurfer's office during the absen'ce on Borough-; Treasurer by ".causing him to ]l0]|Qav 0£ Bruee Normau Guilford. act upou them as if geuuine. • r Tiulford awaits sentence after pleadmg All the charges were related to tho £,CMn „ period from Decembm- 24, 1947, to to the tlieft of over £lb,000 of January 15, 1948. whilc rii.Kcring wa.i the borough funds.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 September 1948, Page 6
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