BOTHER ABOUT BIG BOODLE.

NZ Truth, Issue 477, 8 August 1914, Page 4

BOTHER ABOUT BIG BOODLE.

Couple of Christchurch "Costs" Collected.

The "Costs" community of Godzone, dyring;»tlie last brace of months, has been having an unenviable run, which threatens to undermine the dignity of the Bar. To obviate this some check will have to. be placed on: trie operations of a large number of "bum" practitioners, who, after having qualified to practice m the Supreme Court, never Bee the inside of that building, but retire instead into the murky seclusion of top-floor and back-room offices, and enter into a campaign of conspiracy concerning the ways and means of sucking' the life-blood from the more susceptible units of the community who are unfortunate enough to fall into the clutches of these "legal" octopj. Quite recently, Walter Shaw, a Tlmaruviah solicitor, was found guilty of misappropriating trust money to the tune" of many thousands. Still more recently "Costs" Crisp, of Dunedin, was propelled into the limelight over smellful transactions of a somewhat similar nature. Christchurch set out to contribute its quota last Saturday, when the 'Tec. Department collected two local solicitors, Thomas Maude and Frank Bowring Turner. On ' Monday the pair were paraded before Mr. H. W. Bishop, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court. Maude was charged — That, during July, 1910, he did ' receive from Thomas De Renzy Harman the sum of £ 1050 on terms requiring him to account for or pay the same to Elizabeth Barnett, and that he did fraudulently convert the same to his own use. Turner was charged: — That on March 30 last, ho. re- . celved from Peter Lloyd Davle's the sum of £77 18s Id on terms roQulrlng him to account for or pay the same to Mrs. A.. J. Burgess. Chief 'Tec. Bishop, who appeared for the police, applied for a remand for eight days, which was granted. Ball was aslcod for by the accuseds' "Costs," and fixed at self £1000, and two sureties of £1000 each m Maude's case, and m sureties totalling £SOO respecting Turner.