THE SLATTERY CASE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIII, Issue 13715, 4 April 1905, Page 5

THE SLATTERY CASE.

ACCUSED FOUND GUILTY. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph*—Copyright. (Received April 3, 11,54 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 3. T. M. Slattery was found guilty of misappropriating £6958, money of his client, Airs Scanlon. He was recommended to mercy on tho ground of his previous unblemished character. Slattery declared that he did not want mercy. Ho had been too confiding. He was sentenced to three years and a half imprisonment. Prior to the summing up he made a lengthy statement. Ho said that ho thought that he was justified in relying upon the letter received from Mrs Scanlon, whom ho would have trusted with his life, not a.s between oi'dinary principal and agent but as between friends, that a settlement could remain over till her return from Europe. Her action in prosecuting him was a mystery of mysteries. If she had given him an honest allowance for five years sei’viee in connection with the estate neither she nor ho would have been present in Court. (Received April 4, 1.10 a.m.) Slattery’s sentence was to hard labour. In a dramatic statement he declared that after holding evci'y position of honour in the State, oven if he were put into Da.rlinghurst by a woman who had come from poverty to position owing a hundred thousaxxd, he would not ask mercy. Ho despised anything in the shape of it. He had prevented friends who raised £5200 paying a single penny to square tho case. He asked for full sentence.