THEFT OF MONEY
TWO YOUNG MEN IN COURT,
ARRESTED IN AUSTRALIA
AUCKLAND, November 16,
Terence Moneriff Nixon, aged 22, and Cyril Robert Hankins, aged 25, were to-day committed for sentence oil charges of stealing Government funds. Nixon admitted that, while a clerk in the (Labour Department, lie s-ole £795 on December 29 last, and Hankins admitted stealing £765. C. S. Mu nil, a clerk i, n the Labour Department, said 'that before he went on iChristrnas leave, /Nixon suggested he should leave two or three cheques •signed in case anyone should come in wanting sm ll payments. He left two cheques signed, and later he found one bad been cashed for £3O, and the other for £765. In both cases the writing ■n th“ body of the cheque was Nixon’s. The butt s showed that a £3O cheque w:\ s drawn for £3, and the £765 cheque for 4s 6d. The wafting on the butts was also Nixon’s. Both names on the butts were fictitious. Nixon was receiving a salary under £2 5s weekly. Detective Hamilton isaid he arrested both accused in 'Sydney on November 3 on warrants and they were extradited N
In a statement Nixon said he put the £3O on a horse named Fisher at th n Auckland Trots. The horse lost, and he then drew a cheque for £765. and, with Hankins, cashed it at a bank, giving Hanking £SOO. With three, minutes to spate they caught the Monowai for Sydney, and went on to North 'Queensland in ,a car they bought for £4O. Subsequently Nixon bought a share in a tourist 'business for £SOO, paying £4OO in cash. The business was dissolved after for £3OO, Nixon getting back £IOO. They returned to Sydney and were penniless, and had pawned their clothes, when arrested. Nixon add. ed that he was heavily involved in racing debts, and alleged he was partly influenced by Hankins in stealing the money. (Hankins in evidence said he had not met Nixon until the day of the theft, and until then had no intention of going to Australia, He had nothing to do with the theft of the £3O. The Magistrate ,(refused to allow bail
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1933, Page 7
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