FORGERY ALLEGATION
— — • -W»- « Sydney Legal Firm’s Losses H. J. THOMPSON FOR TRIAL SYDNEY, June 11. Harold York Thompson, aged 35, sol icitor, appeared in the Central Police Court to-day on nine charges alleging misappropriation and forgery and was committed for trial, bail being fixed at £lOOO. The evidence 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 are over £4OOO, which went back to 1933. The firm had no knowledge of the shortage until Thompson disappeared from the launch on the Hawkesbury river. Detective-Sergeant Clifford, who brought Thompson back from' Adelaide, *iid that Thompson admitted that he hud misappropriated 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 hearing.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 152, 12 June 1936, Page 7
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