SOLICITOR CHARGED
FIRM’S HEAVY LOSS
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SYDNEY, June 11
Harold York Thompson, aged 35, the solicitor (who, with his brother, disappeared from Hawkesbury River in the early part of May, turning up later in Broken Hill), to-day appeared at the Central Police Court on nine charges, alleging misappropriation and forgery. He was committed for trial, bail being fixed at £lOOO. The evident/ of Walter Shepherd, of the legal firm of Greenwood, Shepherd and York, with which Thompson was connected, disclosed that the amount of the firm's losses was over £4,000, which went back to 1933. The firm had no knowledge of the shortage until Thompson disappeared’
Detective-Sergeant Clifford, who brought Thompson buck from Adelaide.' said that Thompson had admitted that, he had misappropriated the money to his own use, and to pay gambling liabilities. Thompson to-day told the Magistrate that he intended to plead guilty at the Higher Court.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 June 1936, Page 10
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