GAVE AWAY RECORDS
DEPARTMENTAL HEAD CHARGED NOT GUILTY OF THEFT Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. In a reserved judgment to-day Mr. E. Page, S.M., dismissed charges of stealing records, and receiving electrical fittings, preferred against Sidney Frederick Wililam Vause. The defendant was head of the gramophone department of his firm, and was authorised to give away for the purposes of the firm’s business such records as he thought fit. The Magistrate held that to constitute theft the goods must be taken without colour of right. With regard to the electrical apparatus, the evidence showed that for many years the defendant, who was the only one in the firm’s employ possessing technical knowledge on the point had made a practice, with the knowledge of his employers, of taking home and testing appliances, whether of his own his firm’s or of other firms with which he did business. He was not satisfied that the defendant’s action in receiving the goods was other than honest.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 429, 10 August 1928, Page 13
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161GAVE AWAY RECORDS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 429, 10 August 1928, Page 13
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