COLOSSAL FRAUD
DEFALCATIONS TOTAL £200,000 GAOL TERM POR SOLICITOR. CLERK RELEASED ON BOND. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 13. A Sydney solicitor, William Clegg, and Mrs Leila Smith, his clerk, who were indicted on many chargs of fraud and misreprv.<jentatic-n, were convicted at the Quarter Sessions after a prolonged trial. The woman was recommended to mercy. Both were remanded for sentence.
Clegg was later sentenced to imprisonment for four years, and Mrs Smith was released on bond to be of good behaviour for three years. The Judge said it was quite obvious that Mrs Smith came under the control and influence of Clegg, whose defalcations, according to the police, rmounted to £200,000.
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Northern Advocate, 14 August 1931, Page 5
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