LARGE SUM DISAPPEARS
POSTAL CLERK ARRESTED COMMITTED TO SUPREME COURT Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. A Post Office cadet, diaries William Matthews, aged IS years, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court today to stealing a canvas bag containing £1,400 in £1 notes, on Monday. William Arthur Melrose, a clerk in the post office, stated that ou Mouday morning he handed accused a registered mail which that day had arrived from Rarotonga, including a bag containing a remittance from the postmaster there.
Charles Gamble, senior examiner of the accountants’ branch, said accused assisted in the search for the bag after it was found to be missing, and accused said he had left the bag on his desk on the previous day. Detective McLennan said accused denied the theft, but later produced a parcel from his wardrobe at his home. The parcel contained £1,356 17s 3Jd. Accused said he had sent £lO to pay a debt and spent £3 2s Sid. The £lO had been recovered and accused had signed an authority for the other amo;\:t to be taken out of his wages which were due. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, hail being fixed at £2OO. Suppression of his name was refused.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 303, 14 March 1928, Page 13
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203LARGE SUM DISAPPEARS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 303, 14 March 1928, Page 13
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