EMBEZZLEMENT BY COUNTY CLERK.
* — .(PKESS ASSOCIATION' TELEGRAJC.) ' Jt WOOD ViLLE, May 10 ", J At tho Magistrate's Court to-day jjflP, A : > fore Mr' Raid, ti.M., Martha, Hptchfns, formerly clerk to th ( - tVpodvillo Count? Council, pleaded guilty to charges siealii!cr sums aggregating £565 m®j; i the Council. The total amount of tW defalcations was over £1200, tut total was reduced to tho amount stafw* by deductions of sums appearing p tt' books as haviug been received, ,5? which had not been ■W' books, it was stated in ovidance, in a most chaotic statp, Governmcnt Auditor great trpujw, an?;'r. weeks of hard work, in unrflywing t' : tangle. Hutchens va« Mmmittea ,? the Supreme Court at W eUmgton W .. sentence, bail being allowed sen .. £300, and t*o sureties of £300 each- -r ,
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16209, 11 May 1918, Page 8
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