THE COURTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9221, 25 May 1910, Page 3

THE COURTS.

(Pee Press association.)

WELLINGTON, May 24

At the Supreme Court to-day, the re-trial of John lienry Ireson, charged with burglary at Grey town, in whose case the jury disagreed last session, ended in an acquittal of accused.

John Morris Schapira, a bankrupt accountant, was found guilty of frau dulent bankruptcy in having failed to keep'proper books of account. The jury added the following rider:—"We consider the books as produced are not properly kept, but if the bank book and memorandum stated to s be in the pocket of the same had been produced, in our opinion a statement of how he stood Avould probably have been arrived at, and we consider the Official Assignee to blame in not producing same." Certain legal points arising out of the case are to be argued before the Court of Appeal. Meantime the accused was allowed bail in his own recognisance. In his defence accused said he was a native of one of the Baltic provinces, and knew absolutely nothing of bookkeeping, though he claimed he could tell his financial position from the books.