Prison for Solicitor
MISAPPROPRIATION OF CLIENTS’ MONEY. SYDNEY, July 3. Acting-Judge Edwards, at, the quarter sessions to-day, sentenced Harold York Thompson, 35 years oi' age, a Parramatta solicitor, to four years’ imprisonment. Thompson pleaded guilty to misappropriation, forgery, uttering and false pretences, involving a total of £3lOl of clients' money.
Thompson was one of-the two brothers for whom a search was instituted when their empty launch was found and who were later discovered at Broken Hill. The evidence of Walter Shepherd, of the legal firm of Greenwood, Shepherd, and York, with which Thompson was connected, disclosed that the amount of the firm’s losses was over £IOOO, which went back to 1933. The firm had no knowledge of the shortage until Thompson disappeared. Detective-Sergeant Clifford, who* brought Thompson back from Adelaide, said that Thompson admitted that he had misappropriated money to his own use and to pay gambling liabilities*
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 157, 6 July 1936, Page 7
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148Prison for Solicitor Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 157, 6 July 1936, Page 7
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