THEFT OF £491
BY CLUB SECRETARY. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 22. Thefts from the funds of the Cheviot Trotting Clulb and the AlcKenzie Domain Board, amounting to £491 16s Bd, were admitted by the former secretary of both bodies, Thomas Samuel West, aged 38, who pleaded guilty at Cheviot to day to two charges involving this sum, and to a further charge of'"falsifying a bank certificate, thereby committing forgery.
The evidence given at the hearing chiefly concerned the accused’s confessions to the President of the Trotting Club and the Chairman of the Domain Board concerning his defalcations, and similar admissions to Detective’ Sergeant O’Brien. West, it was stated, carried on a bootmaking business at Cheviot, which was not paying, and the stolen money had gone into that business. West was committed to the Supreme Court for, sentence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1931, Page 4
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139THEFT OF £491 Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1931, Page 4
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