BIG AMOUNT STOLEN
By Telegraph—Press Association.
ATTEMPT TO COYER LOSS
Wellington, Sept. 12. The accidental loss of £44, followed by a period of unsuccessful endeavour to make it up, was given by Abel Kerr Edie, aged 46, salesman, in a statement to the police read in the Police Court, why he stole £465/19/- from the Internal Marketing Department, by whom he was employed. He pleaded guilty to the charge of theft and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Edie's statement said that his round covered the eastern suburbs and the Hutt Valley and he collected from customers about £150 daily. In December, 1939, he lost £44. He was worried about that and did not say anything to the department as he was afraid he would lose his job. He thought by gambling on races and playing poker he might recover the loss. He took other money and lost it at gambling. He began drinking and this went on till last month when he found himself £500 short.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1940, Page 8
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