[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] THEFTS BY BANK TELLER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 92, 20 April 1911, Page 3

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] THEFTS BY BANK TELLER.

CAMPBELL PLEADS GUILTY OF '•EMBEZZLEMENT. ' , DUNEDIN, 19th April. 'John Aloysius Campbell appeared at the : City Police Court to-day on three charges of having, while employed as receiving teller at the' Dunedin branch of the Bank of Australasia, received the following stuns on account of the bank and fraudulently converted them to his own use — £137 2s lOd from George-Simp-son on -3rd November, 1909; £146 13s 5d from J. Peterson and Co. on 24th November. 1909 ; .and £76 5s 4d from J. Peterson and Co. on ,sth January, , 1911. In giving evidence, on the .second cnarge, John. Peter son, grocer, said that on 17th February accused went to wit- ; ness's shop and said be was going to j Pabnerston North within, ten minutes. Witness .replied : •' ' You have no time to ! waste." Accused said : "There is an j j Amount of about £200 not placed to your I ciedit in the Bank of Australasia." Witness asked: "How did that happen?" and accused replied :. "There is another party in the know as well as myself. -He has gone to Sydney." Accused added that both he -and the man who had gone to Sydney were guilty. Accused asked witness not to put in his (witness's) old pass-book, but to ask the bank for a new one. _Witness refused, to do, so, and accused left; saying, "I will write to you within a week." Witness consented' to that arrangement. Accused did not write, but within a" week witness-re-ceived the following telegram from "Palmeraton North: "Don't send old book; get new onej letter v following. — Campbell:" Witness subsequently found that £146' 13s .5d had not been placed 'to the credit of his account at the bank. Other evidence having been- , given, accused pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence on" all charges. Chief-Detective Herbert put in a written, admission by accused in Wellington to the bank's inspector. In this accused acknowledged having taken credits and destroyed slips for the amounts mentioned in the charges. He also stated that these were the only amounts misappropriatetl, and that he owed debt* to tradesmen amounting to £30 or £40.