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SOLICITOR ’S DEFENCE (Per Press Association.) YVE LLTN'GTON, this day. An indication that the defence ivns mainly concerned with the facts, and was not of a technical legal character, was given by Mr H. O. Hoys, counsel for William IVrrv Uollings, who is charged with the theft of £(550 from a client, in answer to the judge during the cross-examination of Detective Carnpin, who made an investigation of Uollings ’ hooks and records. The defence, lie said, would be that the accused omitted one thing, and one only—to register the first mortgage. Failure to do so had not been criminal. The money had gone to a property purchase company. The judge: Then the remedy would be a civil one. Mr Boys said that that was the effect. He .added that he might ask to have questions of law reserved. Thomas Lindsay Ward, an uc Court t- : was - a Med to substantiate the Crown’s allegations, and gave lengthy evidence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18466, 3 August 1934, Page 8
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160ALLEGED £650 THEFT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18466, 3 August 1934, Page 8
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