WRONGFUL CONVERSION.
CANVASSER FOUND GUILTY. SENTENCE RESERVED. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.' HAMH/TONj Nov. 27. A well-dressed intelligent-looking young man named Walter Henry McConnell, who is at present serving a term of twelve months’ hard labour at Auckland, for issuing valueless cheques, was found guilty at Hamilton yesterday on four charges of wrongful conversion, amounting to over £2OO, which he should have accounted for to the National Tobacco Company, for which company he was agent. McConnell was employed to canvass Waikato for shares, and to push the sale of the company’s tobacco. In one case he received a cheque for £219 15s from Mary Ellen Seifert, of Hamilton, as balance on 250 shares. Of this he only paid in £3l ss, the amount due on allotment. In three other instances he received sums of £l2 10s from Edward Jones, saddler, but failed to account for the sums. The police report described accused as a plausible and cunning criminal. Sentence was deferred.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 November 1924, Page 5
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