THE WELLINGTON BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
DEFALCATIONS BY. AN EXSECRETARY; [United PbeSs Association.] WELLINGTON, Saturday. Alexander Watt Purvis, late secretary , and master of a benevolent institution, j was brought before Mr Justice Cooper j at the Supreme Court, to-day {qr stjri- j tence on 12 ehafgefc of theft a,iid .false , pretences, connected with the funds of tile institUtibA*. . Mr^ Skerrett., the appeared tor the prisoner, appealed for probation, or a lenient sentence on the ground that . Purvis had . previously borne a good character arid had placed £150 in trust to make restitution, and that Ms management of .the. Ohiro Home had been very successful from a financial point of view. His Honor said the case did not come within the First Offenders' Probation Apt. , Prisoner had an established crifiiinal intention and had abused tho trust placed in him, although not to a very large extent. So far as the investigation showed, the extraordinary feature of the case seemed to be that the prisonoi.wVas a man of. means. His own explanation was that he had succumbed to temptation by two others. In passing a sentence of 12 months' imprisonment his Honor thought he was dealing leniently with the prisoner.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 4 February 1907, Page 4
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196THE WELLINGTON BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 4 February 1907, Page 4
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