EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGES

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 21, 24 January 1917, Page 6

EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGES

AGAINST TWO OFFICIALS. BIG SUMS INVOLVED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association "' MELBOURNE, January 23; . !An official of the Navy Department ' named David O'Donoghue, who a fewv?' days ago was charged with h»viag .' verted certain moneys to his own -itsejfi -H has been remanded on five additi6n«i charges of embezzling £2,843, the funds 3a of the Navy Department. The Prosecutor stated that the total defalcations amounted to about £ 10,000. Accused's solicitor objected to the statement that the total defalcations were so > much. He said O'Donoghue had already refunded £1,800, and he hoped to refund - practically the whole. SYDNEY, January 23. liieut. D. H Howell Price appeared at the Police Court to-day and was. v r& rnanded. Counsel, on behalf of •Wβ Crown, stated that he understood accused was a lieutenant and adjutant in thei 1 Ninth Light Horse from April to July, 1915, and he was alleged to hate slrtj- r^ mitted claims for pay for the Whole umVi;: from the time it was demobilised till." the'", following November. He drew ar.Bttm* ; - , which was alleged to approsimat* £50,000. He left the Defence forces in r September last medically unfit. There " fas a suggestion that he had not;dig. ' iosed of all the money he obtained-- v > Counsel for the defence, in asking for \ >ail, which was fixed at f 3,000, stated ' ' ;hat the defence was a good one. ' ' "■ ■•/