Found Guilty of Series Of Charges of Dishonesty
MERCY RECOMMENDED BY JURY Per Press Association AUCKLAND, Last Night, The trial of James Milward Houston, a company director, aged 44, on charges of fraudulently failing to account for monoy and of theft, was concluded In tho Supreme Court. The separate countß in tho indictment numbered 64, chiefly alleging failure to account. The jury returned to say that they had found accused guilty on all the first 45 counts and on nine others. On six they acquitted him. Tho first 45 counts were charges of receiving sums of money upon terms requiring him to account for them to John Burns arid Co., Ltd., and having fradulently omitted to do so. The other charges of which he -was found guilty were of thefts from Hobart Berkel, Ltd., failure to enter certain items in the books of the company with intent to defraud, and as an officer of the company making a false statement of stock with intent to deceive a creditor.
.The jury recommended meicy, considering that tho defalcations should have been discovered earlier. Prisoner was remanded xor sentence.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7227, 5 August 1933, Page 6
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