STEALING AS SERVANT. - Hotel Manager Charged. - The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954) - 4 Sep 1937 (original) (raw)

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During July Erskine John Parker (37),

clerk, who was managing the Victoria

Hotel, Toodyay, on behalf of the Avon

Brewery Company, left the State and

went to Tasmania. An accountant who

investigated the affairs of the hotel after

a safe (which Parker had locked) had

been bored open, found that there was a

deficiency of £92/13/4 and Detective

Sergeant Blight was sent to Burnie (Tas

mania), where Parker was arrested, .

bring him back to this State.

Yesterday Parker appeared before Mr.

H. D. Moseley, P.M., in the Perth Police

Court charged with having, at Toodyay,

between July 10 and July 16, being a

servant of the Avon Brewery Co., stolen

£92/13/4, the property of the company,

which came into his possession on behalf

of the company. He pleaded guilty and

after hearing Detective-Sergeant Blight's

evidence the Magistrate remanded him

until today for sentence.

Mr. F. Curran appeared for Parker and

pleaded for leniency. The accused, he

said, had never been in trouble before

and, on this occasion, his lapse was caused

by a domestic upheaval He had got

into difficulties through lack of experi

ence in hotel management.