A SOLICITOR IMPRISONED
GRAVE BREACH OF TRUST
WELLINGTON, September 5. In the Supreme Court to-day Cathro I was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. His Honor said, a great 'breach of trust, had been committed. 1 The sum involved was over £1000, and 'it was not the first time, the prisoner ! had intercepted his master's money. I Moreover, he escaped at the first trial by committing deliberate perjury. lie I could give him seven years, but, seeing prisoner would be disbarred, a lighter penalty would be sufficient. His Honor ordered that £89 found on i prisoner be paid over to the jpwfltcuitor. ■ ■ ••;
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 230, 28 September 1899, Page 8
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