CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT
SMALL SALARY URGED AS AN EXCUSE, By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, August 20. Horace Arthur Crammond, who was for some time branch manager in Wellington for Cook and Son, pleaded guilty iu the Suwreme Court to embezzling j £1435 of bis employers' money. ! i»ounsel said it was the saddest case i on record. Accused increased the local \ business by leapa and .bounds until j £50,000 passed through the office as an ! annual average. His salary was £302,3 tiiking into account bonuses 'and com- j mission. He had been twenty-five j years wMu the firm, fourteen years in { Wellington.' The Crown Prosecutor agreed that I the salary was totally inadequate in j the circumstances of accused's employ- j n«nt. He was remanded till Monday for sentence. •
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 78, 21 August 1914, Page 2
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127CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 78, 21 August 1914, Page 2
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