SALESMAN COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE
THEFT FROM INTERNAL MARKETING DEPARTMENT (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, September 11. The accidental loss of £44, followed by a period of unsuccessful endeavour to make it up, was given by Abel Kerr Edie, aged 46, a salesman, in a statement to the police read in the Magistrate’s Court today as the reason why he stole £465/19/- from the Internal Marketing Department, by whom he was employed. He pleaded guilty to a charge of theft and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Edie’s statement said that his round covered the eastern suburbs and Hutt Valley and he collected from customers about £l5O daily. In December 1939 he lost £44. He was worried about that and did not say anything to the department, as he was afraid he would lose his job. He thought that by gambling on races and playing poker he might recover the loss. He took other money and lost it gambling. He began drinking. This went on till last month, when he found himself £5OO short.
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Southland Times, Issue 24229, 12 September 1940, Page 8
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174SALESMAN COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE Southland Times, Issue 24229, 12 September 1940, Page 8
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