CHARGES OF THEFT
LARGE SUM INVOLVED CASE AGAINST SHAREBROKER fPEB United Press Association) ' CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 5. William Wallace M'Clelland, a sharebroker, aged 52, faced 14 charges of theft, involving £2626 8s 6d, this morning in the Magistrate's Court before Mr E. C. Lewey, S.M. Three Australian witnesses gave evidence. OThey were Detective Sergeant A. L. Nye and Detective Constable H. W. Miller, of the Criminal Investigation Branch of the New South Wales State Police, and P. H. Curtis, chief accountant for Producers and General Finance Corporation, Ltd., Sydney.
Evidence had been taken previously from the persons mentioned in the charges, who claimed that they had given M'Clelland the money as payment for shares, which they said they had never received. The accused pleaded not guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23108, 6 February 1937, Page 7
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