BANKRUPTCY ACT
BUILDER ON TRIAL The hearing of a charge of breach of the Bankruptcy Act against Frederick John Fawcett, building contractor, aged 58 (Mr. Dyson), was concluded in unusual circumstances in the Supreme Court to-day, in the absence of the person charged. When accused was under cross-examina-tion yesterday afternoon he collapsed, and was not in sufficiently good health to take the stand again to-day before Mr. Justice Callan and a jury.
Mr. N. I. Smith for the Crown, and Mr. Dyson for the accused, agreed to let the case go to the jury at the stage which had been reached, the Crown case having been presented, and accused having made his statement on defence before his collapse. Accused had given evidence stating that the figures he had given Smith and Smith in September, 1939, on which goods were supplied on credit, had been prepared for him from his books, and he believed them to be correct. Towards the end of 1939 he was in ill-health, and unable to attend to business.
After addresses by counsel and his Honor, the jury retired to consider their verdict in the afternoon.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 173, 24 July 1941, Page 8
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