BAIL REFUSED TO ACCUSED IN CHARGES OF FRAUD
(P,A.) TIMARU, This Day. ... He could not grant bail on charges as serious as this, said Mr Justice Fleming, when Mr R. Stout, counsel for Thomas Ewart Gill, aged 55, formerly proprietor of the Timaru Central. Egg Floor, and Reginald Tong, aged 44, an accountant,, of. Christchurch, made an application.,for.bail, after the accused had changed their plea of not' guilty made in the Lower Court, to .one of guilty, at a special sitting of the Supreme Court at Timaru yesterday. They pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring with each other by de-ceit,-to defraud the New Zealand Government of £lB6l 3s 4d, between December 1, 1946, and July 3, 1948. Mr Justice Fleming agreed to an application by counsel that accused should be remanded until Wednesday morning for sentence, so that counsel could come from Christchurch, but he declined to grant bail. Other judges had refused bail on remand in less serious cases, he said.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1948, Page 3
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