' EMBEZZLED 11,726:' CLERK SENT TO JAIL

21st September 1956, Page 94

21st September 1956

Page 94

Page 94, 21st September 1956 — ' EMBEZZLED 11,726:' CLERK SENT TO JAIL

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AFTER pleading guilty to charges of embezzling £1,726 from his employers, Birch Bros., Ltd., Henry Ernest Anthony, 23 Buckingham Close, Enfield, was last week sent to jail for six months by Clerkenwell magistrate.

At a previous hearing, Mr. W. Howard, prosecuting, said that Anthony, a cost clerk, had made up the company's weekly wages for 16 years. Since April, 1951, he had been putting entries of fictitious bonuses into his wage book. The offences were not discovered until he went on holiday in July this year.

In reply to Mr. Frank Powell, who said the defendant claimed that he gained work worth more than £5,000 for the company and did not get anything out of it, a director admitted that, in 1954. work by Anthony had resulted in an increased turnover of £5,500. " But there was never at any time any question of commission being paid," he added.

Mr. Howard said that Anthony had received five increases in salary since 1955. He had no predltous convictions