THEFT PROCEEDS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1932, Page 3

THEFT PROCEEDS

FOUND IN BED. "WELLINGTON, April 12. A charge of breaking and entering the Pahiatua Co-operative Dairy Company’s office at Mangamutu on April 3 and stealing a cash-box containing £lB in money, was admitted by Stanley Robertson, a young married man and a former employee o. the company, when he appeared before Justices of the Peace in the Pahiatua Police Court. ■ The police stated that on interviewing Robertson at his house he denied all knowledge of the theft. On searching his bedroom, however, five one pound notes, some ten shilling notes and silver were found secreted between the wire-work of the bed and the mattress Accused subsequently took a constable to an outshed. where £5 12s in' silver was found wrapped in a handkerchief down between some boxes. L Accused admitted the offence and took /Mthe constable to Mangamutu to a macrocarpo hedge, where ho pulled the damaged cash-box out of the trees. He admitted having -opened the door o! 1 the office with pocket-knife. Robertson was committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence. fie was also charged with stealiajg a shirt valued at 15s, the property of H. L. Pinfold, and on this charge was convicted and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. It was stated that during the time lie was working at the factory he had been living in a bach with Mr Pinfold and others. Somethings disappeared, including the shirt, * with the theft of which he was charged.