SYSTEMATIC THEFTS
VAN DRIVER SENT TO GAOL (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. For failure to account for money amounting to £32 14s 6d; Lancelot Exley Cathro, a van driver, aged 41. was sentenced to three months' hard labour. It was stated that he was employed by a Wellington dry cleaning company in March this year. It was discovered that he had misappropriated £Bl 3s 6d, and an arrangement was made whereby he was to refund some of the money per week. Up to the time of the discovery of a further series of defalcations he had refunded £44. The total thefts amounted to £ll3 18s. Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., did not think it was a case for probation. The thefts were too systematic, he said.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1938, Page 6
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127SYSTEMATIC THEFTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1938, Page 6
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