DRURY LANE ACTOR.
ARRESTED IN DRESSING ROOM. NO "ELEMENT OF FRAUD." LONDON, March 7. Arrested in his dressing-room at Drury Lane Theatre, where he Avas playing in the "Decameron Nights," Hugh Buckler, who before the war was head of a syndicate which opened the Little Theatre in Sydney, was charged with obtaining credit without disclosing that he was an undischarged bankrujpt. The judge at the hearing said that there was not ,only no charge of fraud in the case, but no elemnt of fraud. However, he bound the accused over.
Buckler denied a second charge of false pretences. No evidence was offered and he was acquitted. Buckler's counsel said that ho had made a name on the Australian stage, and ran theatres in Sydney and Brisbane. Ho joined up at the outbreak of war. He had recouped the prosecutors, and was paying off his bankruptcy debts.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 664, 24 March 1923, Page 11
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146DRURY LANE ACTOR. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 664, 24 March 1923, Page 11
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