CARETAKER’S THEFTS
GAVE CHAMPAGNE PARTIES Sentence of 12 months' imprisonment was passed at Westminister, London, recently, on Richard Gordon (Brodie, for stealing property worth £5000 from his late employer, Mme. Koch de Gooreynd, of Belgrave Square. He was caretaker while she was away in Belgium, and counsel said that Brodie represented himself as her secretary and engaged safe-open-ers, who believed they were carrying out legitimate instructions. The safes ' were rifled of antiques, old silver, jewels, etc. Brodie (continued counsel) also had drinking parties of women, which had gone far to clear the cellar of champagne and other wines. Some of • Mme. Gooreynd's jewels were given ■to his girl friends, some sold as old gold, and a lot pawned. £3000 worth had been recovered from pawnbrokers.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 659, 11 October 1933, Page 3
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125CARETAKER’S THEFTS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 659, 11 October 1933, Page 3
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