SOLICITOR CHARGED IN SYDNEY
MISAPPROPRIATION ALLEGED (Received June 11, 9.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 11. Harold York Thompson, aged 35, a solicitor, appeared in the Central Police Court to-day on nine charges of alleged misappropriation and forgery. He was committed for trial. Bail was fixed at £IOOO. The evidence of Walter Shepherd, of the legal firm of Greenwood, Shepherd, and York, with which Thompson was connected, disclosed that the amount of the firm’s losses was more than £4OOO, which went back to 1933. The firm had no knowledge of the shortage until Thompson disappeared on the launch trip. Detective-Sergeant Clifford, who brought Thompson back from Adelaide, said Thompson admitted he had misappropriated money to his own use to pay gambling liabilities. Thompson to-day told the magistrate that he intended to plead guilty in the higher court.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21807, 12 June 1936, Page 12
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