STORY OF MOTOR-YACHT.
BANKRUPT'S ALLEGED THEFT.
REMARKABLE STORY, ." V.;;
LONDON, Sept. 21.
A remarkable story was told in the Brentford Court when David Watson v was charged with stealing a motor' yacht. The prosecution explained 1 that the managing director of a motor-boat company, believing Watson to be a financier, requested help from him. - Watson, who v was an undischarged bankrupt, so im- - pressed a meeting of the company's djrec-' .-. tors that he was given charge "of iti" affairs, under th» supervision of an informal committee whose members re- ■',,.. posed complete trust in him. , / "
It was alleged that Watson sold a motor-yacht and other property belonging to the creditors of the company, paid the money into his wife's banking account, and destroyed all , documents concerning the transactions. The hearing was adjourned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18827, 30 September 1924, Page 7
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