A WELLINGTON CASE.
WELLINGTON, February 16. Sydney George Ingram, an employee of Te Aro House, a city drapery estab'ishment, pleaded " Xot guilty " to a charge o! having aided and allotted A. W. Purvis, late secretary of Wellington Benevolent Institution, in frauds which Purvis perpetrated on the trustees of that body, for which he is now serving a term of imprisonment. The case for the Crown wai that Ingrain, at tho lequcst of Purvis, made out bo^us invoices against the trustees, m which i'ems which stood charged to Purvis's rr' va t*' account were fiansferred as chd<-got> against, the trustees and paid for by them. Tht jury returned a verdict of not guilty, after half an hour'a retirement. In summing up the evidence, Mr Justice Cooper said that the Te Aro House Company management had allowed Purvis 25 per cent, discount on all goods purchased p.rivately by him simply because he was the secretary to an institution from which Te Aro House Company had contract to supply goods. It was a most improper thing, and deserved an expression o£ strongest disapproval. The jury added a rider to their verdict endorsing His Honor's remark*.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 25
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192A WELLINGTON CASE. Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 25
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