EMANUEL SENTENCED

Northern Advocate, 29 September 1926, Page 5

EMANUEL SENTENCED

I FIVE YEARS IN ALL I V I “A COMMON SWINDLER." f. profession besmirched. / AUCKLAND, This Day. I Hendry Karo Emanuel, aged 25 ■Kara, a solicitor, who pleaded guilty Wg forgeries and theft involving R6OOO was sentenced at the Supreme ■Court to two years’ hard labour to ■be followed by three years’ reformative detention. Mr Justice Herdman characterised the crimes as besmirching a great profession and the lowering of Emanuel to the level of a common swindler. Mr B. A. Singer, counsel for Emanuel, while admitting it was no possible palliation for his client’s offences, saiid Emanuel was only 25 years of ageA He had been employed by a DuUof solicitors till 1923 when to Auckland. He was a diligent student, “but" added Mr Singer, “there is a fault In the system which allows a modern student to enter into practice before he has had training.” The only plea he could put forward was that Emanuel was mentally unhinged.

- Hjcj Honour said how the prisoner caine M:o do what he had done was probably accounted for by what counsel had stated, but that would be look•ed into by the proper authorities. Addressing the accused His Honor said: "Of the many cases of dishonesty that have come my way this is the most extraordinary. You, as e solicitor of this Court, stole nearly £6OOO, and how you did it is beyond me. Had you been a poverty--stricken man you may have been entitled to more sympathy, but you are Rigbly educated and it is no , excuse forSspu. Not only did you steal from people, but you have dishonoured a great profession. Every lawyer knows he is trusted, and to dishonour hi® profession is to drag it through the,mud. X shall say no more, everything that could bo said-having been put forward by your counsel." ’ . His Honour passed sentence as •stated.- —Press Assn.