CONVICTED OF FRAUD
Adelaide Stockbroker Converted Clients' Assets LORD GOWRIE VICTIMISED Rec. 1 p.m. ADELAIDE, this day. Henry Warburton Hodgetts, bankrupt Adelaide stockbroker, and former employee of the cricketer, Don Bradman, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment on each of four counts of fraudulent conversion and three years on one charge of false pretences, involving £13,500. The terms were made concurrent.
Hodgetts, a former member of the Australian Cricket Control Board, became bankrupt in July last. His deficit was declared to be £82,000. He had used script belonging to clients, including Lord Gowrie, former Governor-General of Australia, for his own purposes.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 215, 11 September 1945, Page 5
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