FRANCIS HENRY BRUGES

Grey River Argus, 2 March 1908, Page 3

FRANCIS HENRY BRUGES

A DISHONEST TRUSTEE

CHRISTCHURCH, Feb 20 Chnstchurch solicitor, on remand was charged in the po.lice' court lis morning Q n the information of William Ad-ward Brown, of Spri'ngburn of mopeya vested "S? &| s trustee to his own use aqd with having been accessory to the theft of moneys by one Jam es Goodman/ Mr T-r; D i ay was OJI the bench. Detective Bishop said the case had been remanded a fortnight ago in order to givp the police an oppbrtiinhv 10 make further enquiries. In the meantime the papers in the case had been submitted to the Crown law officers in We llu-^ton, "with the result that the police had been advised to take no further action in the' matter "is Worship said that either one of two things had occurred, cither the police had been badly advised when they undertook the nrose C ution, or the processes of the court had been misUse f t_, U aP-Peared to him (and would probably s o appear to most people) that either the persons who laid the charges had no proper grounds for doing so, or that the charges were Liid with the intention of recovering monies by criminal nrocess which they could not have obtained by. civil process. * : '■• v The case would be struck oig.