SUPREME COURT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 2 December 1927, Page 8

SUPREME COURT

JURY FAIL TO AGREE (United Press Association} \ NEW PLYMOUTH, Ist December. .The jury were unable to agree on fifteen ■ out of twenty-three charges of'misappropriation of funds belonging to the Taranaki Hospital Board preferred against T.- H. H. Sinclair, a welt-known resident of Opunake, who took a prominent part in public, affairs and who was a member of the Hospital secretary of the Opunake Cottage Hospital Committee. A retrial was ordered by Mr Justice Ostler for the next-session. •

The. amount involved in the twentythree charges .was. £l6B 2s 6d, but .four .charges were withdrawn, and on four a verdict of not guilty was returned.- The accused paid all the money back, and. the ■ defence was forgetfulness and „muddlement. The moneys involved were amounts paid to tile accused as secretary of,the 'Cottage Hospital Committee in settlement of ex-patients’ accounts..--:! ;, . . ; , "The accused - was released on bail.

, ': CHRISTCHURCH : SESSIONS _ CHRISTCHURCH,' This r Day. Three years! reformative detention was imposed ;by Mr Justice Adams on two men, .^Haistdngs• • Garfield - Ireland Alexander Thompson, who after a drunkem orgy lasting for some days broke; into V shop. : One of,, them had attempted .'.to • set fire to the shop. In imposing .'sehtence,his .Honour gave his opinion . that the Police should investigate. closely the source of the supply, of-liquor- which the men had obtained!