CHARGE AGAINST A SOLICITOR.
CASE STRUCK: OUT. • (BY TULEQRAPn—PIIKSS ASSOCIATION.) ! Chrlstchurch,'Mareh 1. Henry Bruges, formerly a-Christ-church, solicitor, on remand, was charged in the Police Court yesterday morning, on tho information of William Edward BroxVn of Springburn, with having converted moneys vested in him,as trustee to his own use and i with having'been' an accessory to the theft of moneys by one James Goodman.' Mr. V •G. Day was on the Bench. ■ ~ Detective Bishop said that tho caso' had been remanded a fortnight; ago in order to give tho police an opportunity to make further. inquiries.' In ' tho' meantime ' the ■papers m the case had been submitted to tho Crown law ofhoers m Wellington, with tho result; that the, polioa had been advised totaled 110 further action in tho matter ' His Worship said that either one 'of two things had occurred r either the police. had been badly advised when they undertook tho prosecution, or the of the Court had been misused. It appeared to him (and would . probably so appear :to . most people)' that either the persons who." laid the charges had 110 proper grounds for doing so, or. that tho charges were laid , with tho intention-of recovering moneys by criminal process which oould not have been obtained by civil nrn cess. The case would bo struck out
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 135, 2 March 1908, Page 6
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