GAMBLER'S LOSSES
CASHIER ADMITS THEFT.
(per Press Association — Copyright.) WELLINGTON, July 20.
Attributing his downfall to gambling 'at poker, Harold Vivian Johns, .cashier, pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s Court, t> theft, as servant,, of £523 14s 1 Id, from Ross and G.jeudining, Ltd He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. In a statement to the police, accused said that he adopted the system of hanking ahead, carrying the. writing up Of receipts into the following months.. By June he had become very worried whether to carry on hiding the shortage, which was becoming more difficult, or to make a clean breast of it.’ He decided that the best w r ay. was to make the true position known to the. management. This he had done.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1932, Page 2
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127GAMBLER'S LOSSES Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1932, Page 2
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