TELEGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10351, 26 April 1911, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

THEFT OF MONEYS. MASTER MARiINEtRTiS FALL. CHVEIS 1 HIMiSIEIL,F UP TO POLICE. P'UNKID'BN 1, Aipril 25. In the Police Court this morning Arthur Robert Claint, mahttei- mariner, who had ahiarlge of the Union Steamship Jo's laboair 1 deipartmieait, was ciharged \vith stealing £118 17s, the property of 'tha company. The ua,se shmwted soane remarkable features. lit appeared that accused was in financial difficulties and in order to pay pressing accounts he used the money which had! ibban givjen him to pay off the) crew of the Koromiko. Detective Wai-d said tha adcxtsed dalled at tlio' polico ytation and said ho wished 1 to "ivo himself in charge blecausa he had stolon £100 belongingl to thei Unioai Oompany. Accused signed a statement a,ndi handed witness £.16 odd. Witness! and others testified that accused' bore an excellent character. The accused's sol id tea" asked for bail, but the mlaig'isttratje indicated that in acciordianciß witli a. reei&nt diction of the Supretmo -Court judge tliis Was not" a ciase in which he was free to allow bail if the accused pleaded guilty. A'cuMised then resca-ved 1 his defence, and was committed for trial, bail being allowed.