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FAILURE TO ACCOUNT FOR CAR DEPOSIT. YOUNG MAN GETS PROBATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Eric Neville Hill, aged 27. was charged today with the theft at Christchurch on August 13. by failing to account to J. T. Christie, for £25 he received as deposit from a client on a car he had demonstrated for sale. Hill did not appear at work on the following day. nor did he inform his employer that he had received a deposit. He was located later in Wellington. Counsil said the offence was committed more through insensate folly than with criminal intent. Accused took too much liquor with a party of Australians and next morning woke up in a strange hotel. He found he had lost his money. Unfortunately he also lost his head, and attempted to run away. Hill was placed on probation for two years.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1939, Page 6
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146INSENSATE FOLLY Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1939, Page 6
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