TRUST BETRAYED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 404, 12 July 1928, Page 1

TRUST BETRAYED

youth appropriates £2BO COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE “Accused gained my confidence j | trusted him with any amount of money he wanted. This was the concluding statement de in evidence at the Police Court n,is morning by William Castles, who ? heen victimised by William Freney Keenan"o the extent ol £2SO since F Keenan pleaded guilty to charges of th e theft of £2BO and one pair of binoculars valued at £5. Castles who is a linotypist carrying _ n business in Upper Queen Street, said that he had met the prisoner in Fel*rnarv when a partnership had been entered into. It was purely a verbal Vereement, the arrangement being thsit he would advance Keenan money to buy fflnrv goods which were to be resold a profit to be shared on a 50-50 basis Keenan was to keep all records end submit balances occasionally. •This he failed to do,” continued castles “and discovering his defalcations i reported the affair to the r °john Edward Hutchinson, an indent agent, said that Keenan had taken a nair of binoculars on approval, saying that he had a buyer for them at £7 10s The money was not forthcoming. Detective Bickerdike said that Keenan had admitted pawning the glasses for £2. The pawn ticket had been found in his possession. Prisoner had made a full confession. Keenan, who said that he had nothing to say, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.