DOMINION ITEMS
ACCOUNTANT’S THEFT
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AUCKLAND, July 17
Richard Davis, who 'admitted stealing £353 from the firm which employed him as accountant, was sentenced to-day to three > years detention. THREE YEARS’ REFORMATIVE AUCKLAND, July 17. William Henry Pollock .aged 53, was sentenced to three years’ reformative for stealing £5 os Id front the timber company, of which he was secretary. The judge said that the prisoner had been convicted in 1922 of stealing trust money in Wellington. (CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. AUCKLAND, July 17. As a' sequel to the death, from strichnine poisoning, of Charles Roddy, aged 53, after he drank a preparation which be believed to bo slippery elm bark, George Alexander Rowson, aged 30, wa.s charged in ihe Police Court with manslaughter. Evidence i s being given on the lines of the inquest, 'at which the 1 Coroner found - that a most unfortunate error had been made in making up the preparation in the -warehouse*
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1933, Page 6
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159DOMINION ITEMS Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1933, Page 6
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