SUPREME COURT
SENTENCES AT GREYMOUTH
THEFT AND BIGAMY (By Teiegrapvi—Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, Alarch 6. lu the Supreme Con it Frank Brace, chief clerk of the State Aline, who was barged with the theft- of £426 ssi lOd, was sentenced to 1.2 months’ reformative detention. Gregory O’Neill for bigamy was placed' on probation for two years. SO ETC ITOR ’ S DEIF ALC ATTONS. DETENTION FOR FOUR. YEARS. HAMILTON Alarcli 6. Athol Fielding Howarth, aged 45, a ■solicitor, of Te Ivuiti, for the theft of trust moneys amounting to nearly £IOOO was. sentenced to reformative detention for four years. His Honour said he had used the money in his own speculations and there was no possible excruse for his actions. It was much better for _ a i Lsolicitor to go bankrupt than to misappropriate trust moneys.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 6 March 1931, Page 9
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