LAW CLERK CHARGED
MISSING FUNDS WORK WITHOUT WAGES Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. In the Supreme Court to-day Samuel Phoenix Briggs, a law' clerk, pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing £337 belonging to the Simmorids Estate administered by his employer, W. Cracroft Wilson. Counsel said the prisoner was employed by Mr. Wilson, a solicitor, under an unsatisfactory arrangement by which the prisoner shared in the profit'. Briggs told the police he did not receive any wages or profits, and had been forced by necessity to steal moneys in the estate. He also said gambling was his downfall. The case is proceeding. In his address to the jury prisoner said that he took the money and used it, but not as a deliberate theft. He got no salary, and he had to go home at night to find his children withorir food.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 203, 16 November 1927, Page 13
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142LAW CLERK CHARGED Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 203, 16 November 1927, Page 13
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