THEFT ACKNOWLEDGED

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1930, Page 3

THEFT ACKNOWLEDGED

BY POLICE

CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 30

Beiore Alagistrate Mosley, Frederick George Findley McKay, 36, a former teller in the Bank of New South Wales, at Gieymouth, pleaded guilty to charges of tlie theft of £314, tlie property of the Bank. v

Ln his statement to the police, accused said: “I wish to give the police every assistance, in respect to money stolen by me while an employee oi the Bank of New South Wales, for the past eighteen years. For about four years, ending May last, I was at the Greymouth branch of the Bank. A client of the Bank, named John Deere, had a fixed deposit with our Bank at Greymouth. On April 30, 1930, this tixed deposit, representing the principal of £279, and the interest £2l fell due. The client called into the bank to renew the fixed deposit for the total amount of £3OO. I got his signature to the original fixed deposit credit slip as required, and also got him to sign liis name to the back of the fixed deposit receipt form that fell due on April 30, 1930. I should have entered instructions on the back of the., fixed deposit receipt, asking for a renewal of same, but without making any such entry, I got him to sign his signature, and later wrote in the -words- “cash, principal, final eighteen months’ interest.’ This meant that it then conveyed the impression that the client had actually received the full amount referred to in cash, and, had not reinvested it. I also obtained his signature to the blank cheque form on our bank, and I later filled in this form for the full amount of £3OO 14s 4d, and on May 16, 1 cashed this cheque at our Greymouth branch, and obtained the full amount of cash.” Accused added that he was then £290 in debt in Greymouth, and he paid debts with the money received. A further sum of £29 was stolen in Christchurch.