BANKRUPT FARMER
THE JURY'S VERDICT
JUDGE'S INTER PRETATION
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, 22nd August.
Having been convicted on six counts of breaches of the Bankruptcy Act, Bert Thomas appeared before Mr. Justice Ostler for sentence, but sentence was deferred until Monday.
His Honour expressed a desire to give effect to the jury's recommendation to mercy but he was of opinion that such recommendation was intended to be conditional upon the prisoner abandoning his fraudulent conduct. His Honqur expressed the opinion also that Thomas had command of money from the sale of his farm, whether it was m his wife's name or not, and he thought he was able to discharge his debts to two of his creditors. Eis Honour therefore deferred sentence for a few- days to give the prisoner the opportunity of thinking the matter over and abandoning his fraudulent conduct. If he did not do so his Honour intimated that ho would consider it his duty in tho public interest* to inflict the heaviest penalty the law permitted him to impose. Among the charges on which Thomas tvas found guilty was one that he had left New Zealand with property, the proceeds of the sale of a farm, and that he had not disclosed the whole of his issets to his creditors.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 47, 23 August 1930, Page 7
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