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A SYDNEY EMBEZZLER GIVES HIMSELF UP. (Special to the Standard.) Napieb, last night. A young fellow of nineteen gave himself up to the police here to-day, confessing that he was W. D. Berrell, who is "wanted” for embezzling £640 belonging to the Commercial Bank of Sydney. He was engaged in a country branch, got away with the money in September last and has got through it since. A decided squint permitted of easy identification with the description given in the Police Gazette. He was remanded for the arrival of farther information from Sydney. He had been in Napier some time doing nothing, and got tired of waiting to be nabbed.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 22, 2 August 1887, Page 2
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113Latest Napier Sensation. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 22, 2 August 1887, Page 2
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