GAOL FOR FIVE YEARS
ADELAIDE, September 10. Henry Warburton Hodgetts, the bankrupt Adelaile stockbroker, was sentenced to-five years' imprisonment on each of four counts of fraudulent conversion and three years' on one charge of false pretences involving £13,500. The terms were made concurrent.
Hodgetts, a former member of the Australian Cricket Control Board, went bankrupt in July. His deficit was declared to be £82.000.
He had usad scrip belonging to clients, including Lord Govvrie, a former Governor-General, for his own pur-poses.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 63, 12 September 1945, Page 7
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81GAOL FOR FIVE YEARS Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 63, 12 September 1945, Page 7
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