ROBBED BY HIS DAUGHTER.
A GIRL'S DEED A returned soldier's twenty-year-old daughter pleaded guilty in the Wanganui Police Court tlie other day to withdrawing .€4l from her father's Post Oflice Savings Bank account l)y means of forged withdrawal slips. The evidence .showed that 111 December last the father handed the accused, for safe custody,cer« tain documents vouching for the payment into his bank account of hi» gratuity money, amounting to £4l 2s. On 1 January 30th, his daughter told him (hoy had been stolen. The police were informed, with the result that the girl whs arrested. It appeared that she bad withdrawn the money in three suxm of £3O on December 30th, £8 on January Gfh, and £3 on January 19th. On one occasion she got a stranger in military uniform to witness the signature on the withdrawal form,, remarking to htm tlmt he would be doing it for a returned soldier. Afterwards she confessed to her father. In the witness box the father stated that the accused was his wily * daughter, and kept house for him. The accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, bail being allowed in one surety of £IOO. j
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1920, Page 5
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196ROBBED BY HIS DAUGHTER. Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1920, Page 5
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