GIRL CONFESSES HEAVY THEFTS
£1,892 FOOLISHLY * SPENT—COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Today. Pleading guilty to stealing sums of money amounting to £1,892 from the drapery firm of Drayton-Jones, Ltd., Nancy Hastings Carr, 22 years of ago, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The woman was employed as the firm’s secretary from November 24, 1924, till April 29, 1927, and had full charge of the cash and business transactions. In a statement admitting her guilt she stated that she had spent the money foolishly. “I was extremely surprised that this theft was not found out months ago, and gradually the temptation grew stronger and stronger,” she said in her statement to the detective who arrested her. A SIMPLE METHOD Her duty was to keep the books and handle the money of the firm. Her method was simple, according to her statement. Observing that the audit was slack, she entered up the day’s cash sales from £lO to £4O less than the actual receipts on 128 occasions, thereby embezzling £1,892. The managing director of the firm, so accused said, had on several occasions pressed the auditor to close every avenue for leakages; but the work was not done, and she continued her thefts. The auditor is at present out of the Dominior
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 52, 24 May 1927, Page 9
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