N.Z. SOLDIER’S LAPSE
Theft Of Money At Cairo
George Thurley Thurman, soldier and welder, aged 32, was admitted to probation for 18 months by Mr. Justice Smith in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday. on a charge of bringing into New Zealand £5B/10/- in New Zealand currency and 104 United States dollars which be had stolen from a safe deposit at the New Zealand Forces Club, Cairo. On arrival at Wellingfon on furlough from the Middle East, he concealed the money in a toy dog, and threw it to his small son from the deck of a ship. In making a plea for leniency. Mr. A. J. Mazengarb said that in the 16 years be had been in New Zealand, prisoner had borne an unblemished character, and his military career had been exemplary. He left with the New Zealand forces in 1940, and contracted malaria in Greece, and on his discharge from hospital in Egypt was given a job at the base. In a moment of temptation he took the money, and had at once regretted his action, and did not have sufficient moral courage to confess to his crime on the voyage home. His Honour said prisoner had been in several campaigns since 1940. and had acted on impulse in taking the money. A condition was made that prisoner should refund the balance of the money which had not been recovered, about £2O. l”fl-£5S/10/-u,e there should would
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 8
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237N.Z. SOLDIER’S LAPSE Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 8
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