SUPREME COURT TRIALS.
(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, March 4. At the Supreme Court to-day John Ryley was charged with breaches of the Bankruptcy Act. Mr Haggitt, Crown Prosecutor, conducted the case for the prosecution, and Messrs Sim ond Fraser appeared for the defendant, who was allowed to sit beside his counsel. The indictment contained twenty-one counts, founded on various clauses of the Bankruptcy Act. The first counts dealt with failing to keep books which were usual and proper, and doing so with intent to conceal his true position. Then he is charged with making payments for shares, &c, out of his business, from which £20,000 had been withdrawn, and going in for rash and hazardous speculations. He is further charged with contracting debts without a reasonable expectation of being able to pay them, and with giving undue preference in payments made. The hearing of the case was not concluded.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9668, 5 March 1897, Page 5
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