SOLICITOR’S TRIAL
Fraudulent approprtatio- s
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y. AUCKLAND, November 2. i Charles Stewart Leahy, a solicitor, 'on trial to-day, was charged with the fraudulent /appropriation of sums of £23 and £176, belonging to a client. ' The Crown Prosecutor said that ac.bu 1 ed 'was suspended from practice last May. The Crown’s allegation was that systematic use bod' been made of ah’-account of a-client, named YV he/be, who / left New Zealand gome years ago, t-j transfer large sums to Leahy’A. fees’ Recount. A total of over £a7oo wa* Concerned. Tlie essence of the present charged was that, the money had not been distributed by Leahy as his client intended, apd it was, available. The case is proceodiiig.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1932, Page 6
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