DISGUISE FAILS.
Company Director's Attempt To Abscond. £43,000 INVOLVED. (AuMniliiUi mid N.Z, I'n-ss Assncliil'iMi.") LONDON, Fclnuary ]i». Tlie former i-hairman of directors .:f N'or>:i!_', Limited. C. A. Braudreth. who t'liaiued with the com e.sion of £4.'I.»(IO from tlie funds ( if the coiiip-iny !d own use, au.'iii appeared in a Police Court yesterday and was omi. , inin'e remanded. liail was refused. Counsel fur the linn. Mr. I'oonie. >aid accused drew a. cheque for £.VI,OOO mid bought a. liou.-e on which lie paid a de|>osit of £500 in notes. He completed the purchase within a few days Hlid lived in it under an a-sumed name. Hrandreth shaved off his moustache, said counsel. He boupht a motor car for iilt>i and some furniture for £280. Ho paid fur them in Treasury notes. lli.intention was to disappear an<l come to life ajrain as -J. (Jordon Bell." Counsel for the defence, Mr. Frampton, said accused was ill and worried. Possibly he did a silly thinir hut he never tried to pet away. The matter wa» purely one of accounts. His holding in the company, even at the present pnec of the shares, far exceeded the sum ho was charjred with having converted to his own use.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 35, 11 February 1929, Page 7
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