BUTCHER’S MAN ROBBED PETER TO PAY PAUL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 401, 9 July 1928, Page 1

BUTCHER’S MAN ROBBED PETER TO PAY PAUL

FINANCIAL JUGGLING GAOLED FOR ONE MONTH That “robbing Peter to pay Paul,” was an unsatisfactory scheme was proved by the experience of William John Casley, a butcher’s roundsman of Otahuhu, who pleaded guilty at tho Police Court this morning to charges of theft extending over a period from January to June of this year. Chief Detective Hammond said that Casley, in his position as roundsman, had ample opportunity, of which he had availed himself, of appropriating sums of money and falsifying the accounts to hide his actions. His employer had discovered Casley’s dishonesty and had given him another chance, which he had not taken. The total of his depredations to date was £26 9s sd. Casley said that, since he had been given a chance, he had stolen no money for himself. All he had taken was given back to his employer as restitution for the money stolen previously. Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M.: I see, you paid your employer with his own money, which you had stolen front him. Casley, who was a married man with two children, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment and ordered to make restitution at the rate of 10s a week.