BANKRUPT DUKE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 14, 17 July 1923, Page 7

BANKRUPT DUKE

•"AN ERROR OF JUDGMENT."

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(AUSTRALIAN- NEW.ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCUriO.V.)

(Received 17th July, 9 a . m .) T , „ , LONDON, 16th July, lhe Recorder bound the Duke of Leins ter over on his. own recognisances to came_np for judgment if called upon, lhe Recorder said ho thought the offence was more an error of judgment and that the circumstances of the case could be fairly met by the period of reflection given since last session. Leinster intimated that he intended to' appeal against the jury's verdict. '

The Duke of Lemster, who became bankrupt in 1914, was found guilty on 3rd July, by a .special jury, of obtaining credit without disclosing that he was an undischarged bankrupt, and was ordered to be kept in custody til] tho next sessions, and then .released, without suffering any indignity. In 1914, there were two lives between himself and the title, and he sold his reversionary interest m the estates for £70,000 (all of which went to his creditors) to Sir H Mallaby-Deeley'. Subsequently a company was formed to recover the estates, and they were restored after legal ac-