DEEPLY INVOLVED
THEFT FROM EMPLOYERS
I (By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
v ,
PALMEESTON N., July 13.
William Henry Pollock (53) pleaded guilty today to charges of stealing £561 from a timber company which employed him as secretary. He was committed to the Supremo Court for sentence.
In a statement to tho police Pollock said that after coming from Wellington he had to abandon .a house he had been buying there. He lost his eqliity, about £600. In Auckland he found himself in difficulties, and after March, 1931, took small sums, most of which he gambled away. His position got gradually worse, and he began betting in bigger sums, but only got more deeply involved: •
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19330714.2.214
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1933, Page 14
Word Count
112DEEPLY INVOLVED Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1933, Page 14
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in