GUILTY OF THEFT
SALESMAN IN COURT STOLE FROM DEPARTMENT (By Telegraph.—rress Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday The accidental loss of £44, followed by a period of unsuccessful endeavour to make it up, was given by Abel Kerr Edie, aged 46 years, salesman, in a statement to the police, read in Court to-day, as the reason why he stole £465 19s from the Internal Marketing Department, by whom he was employed. He pleaded guilty to a 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 £l5O daily. In December, 1939, he lost £44. He worried about that and did not say anything to the department, as he was afraid he would lose his job. He thought that by gambling on races and playing poker he might recover the loss.
He took other money and lost it in gambling, and he began drinking. This went on till last month, when he found_himself £SOO short.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21215, 11 September 1940, Page 8
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173GUILTY OF THEFT Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21215, 11 September 1940, Page 8
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