DISHONEST TELLER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10219, 21 April 1911, Page 3

DISHONEST TELLER.

! campbell pleads qv-'vty tc embezzlement. -, (By Telegraph—Press Association.} DUNEDIN, April 19. John Aloysius (Jampbell appeared at the City Police Court to-day, on three charges of having, while employed as receiving teller at the Dunedin branch of the Bank of Australasia, received the following sums on account of the bank and fraudulently converted them to his own use—£l37 2s lOd from George Simpson on November 3rd, 1909; £146 13s 5d from J. Peterson and Co. on November 24th, 1909; and £76 5s 4d from J. Peterson and Co. on January sth, 1911. In giving evidence on the' second' charge John Peterson, grocer, said that on February 17th accused went to witness' shop and said he was going to Palmerstoni North within ten minutes. Witness replied: "You 'have no time to waste." Accused said: "There is an amount of about £2OO not placed to your credit in the Bank of Australasia." asked: "How did that happen?" and accused replied, "There is another party in 'the know as well as myself. He has gone to Sydney." Accused added that both he and the man who had gone .to Sydney were guilty. Accused asked witness not to put in his (witness') old pass hook, but to ask at the -bank for a new one. Witness re- j fused to do so, and accused left, say- I ing: "I, will write to you within a I week." "Witness consented to that arrangement; Accused; did not write, hut within*a week witness received ! # the following telegram from Palmer- ' ston North: "Don't send old book; J get new one; letter following.—-Camp- ; hell." witness subsequently found thai £146 13s sd'had not been placed J to the credit of his account at the i bank. I

Other evidence having been given, accused pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence on all charges. Chief-Detective Herbert-put in a written admission by accused in Wellington to the bank's inspector. In 'this accused acknowledged having taken credits <and destroyed slips for the amounts mentioned in the charges. He also .stated that these were the only amounts misappropriated, and that he owed debts to tradesmen amounting to £3O or £4O. ,