DISAPPEARED ON BAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18021, 21 February 1922, Page 3

DISAPPEARED ON BAIL.

QUESTION OF ESTREAT,

PLEA BY THE BONDSMAN. "This sort of thing is becoming a little too frequent," said Mr. Justice Stvinger, in the Supreme Court yesterday, when Harry McNeill, billiard room proprietor (Mr Singer), sought to show causo why bail of £100 allowed Percy Broadhurst should not bo estreated. Broadhurst was 'to havo been tried for conspiring to defraud an Austrian of £13, but was stated to have disappeared and, tie Crown Prosecutor, Mr. V. R. Meredith, applied for bail to be estreated. Mr. Meredith said there bad been five other similar cases comparatively' recently. McNeill, said ho met Broadhurst at the war, -he being a military policeman. He almost went down on his knees to beg XL to find bail. Witness had a wife SdS children. After Broadhurst wen X "the North witness unusedl of scVal men with the object of keeping in touch with him. His Honor, after remarking that h? had D 0 alternative but must either estreat the bail or not estreat it, said he would consuit with Mr. Justice Herdman with th object of laying down some principle for dealing with such cases. It must be realised that people. who entered into bonds undertook a serious responsibility.