REMANDED FOR SENTENCE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 323, 5 August 1933, Page 6

REMANDED FOR SENTENCE

Company Director Found ; Guilty on Some Charges j ALLEGED FAILURE JO ACCOUNT Press Association. —Copyright. Auckland, Aug. 4. j The trial of James Milward Houston, i company director, aged 44, on charges ] of fraudulently failing to account for j money and of theft, was concluded in j the Supreme Court to-day. The separ- j ate counts in the indictment number 64, ! chiefly alleging failure to account. J The jury returned to say it had found j Houston guilty on all of the first 45 j Lints and on nine others. On six they acquitted him. The first 45 counts were I charges of receiving sums of money upon terms requiring him to account for them to John Burns and Co., Ltd., and having ; fraudulently omitted to do so. Other j charges of which he was found guilty j were of thefts from Hobart Berkel, Ltd., j failure to enter certain items in the I books of the company with intent to j defraud, and as an officer of the com- j pany making a false statement of stock j with intent to deceive a creditor. The jury recommended mercy, con- i sidcring the defalcations should have | been discovered earlier. Houston was | remanded for sentence.