DAWN OF SUSPICION
A SHAREBROKER'S TRANSACTIONS £2,620 INVOLVED [Pbb United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, February 15. Fourteen charges of theft, involving sums of money totalling over were preferred against William Wallace M'Clelland, sharebroker, in the Supreme Court this morning. M'Clelland pleaded not guilty. Mr Justice Northcroft presided. M'Clelland had been _ for some years a licensed sharebroker id Christchurch, said Mr Brown, for the Crown Prosecutor, but for some time he had been going round the country purporting to sell shares,, and it was out of those activities that the charges arose. M'Clelland would extract money, undertaking to purchase specified shares. Finding they were getting no satisfaction, two of the people sued him in the Civil Court. In those cases he allowed judgment to go against him by default, showing that he should have returned the money. The other people grew suspicious and handed the matter to the police'. It was then found that M'Clelland had left the country and was in Australia. He was arrested by the Australian police.
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Evening Star, Issue 22573, 15 February 1937, Page 8
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168DAWN OF SUSPICION Evening Star, Issue 22573, 15 February 1937, Page 8
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