SENTENCE ON A VICAR.
PLEADS GUILTY TO FRAUD. The Rev. James Whittam, CM of Sherburn, near Scarborough, pleaded guiity at YorK Assizes to three charges of obtaining money by fraud from moneylenders, and was sentenced.;, to nine Months' imprisonment in the second division. Other charges of unlawful conversion of money obtained from Mr. Andrew Car negie and Sir Tatton Syk«p, to which he pleaded not guilty, were not proceeded with, Mr, Justice Coleridge, m vmias m ence said it had often been Jd he bought erroneously that the puffi** which personam & prisoned Son suffered from the mere proof in open court ot such charges relieved the court ™%\ ±K>W occupying high and trJ-ed positions .\vero not temptel iHheK Poor, unlisted, ignorant MW'S' tempts. ,; Therefore, the meSof )he guilt was, greater the higher WlldZ ment ,shodd\be * h|gh:;positW as:toUhe low2 JI MRM-if B.ia Majesty's "*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15912, 8 May 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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141SENTENCE ON A VICAR. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15912, 8 May 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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