GUILTY ON 54 COUNTS
COMPANY MANAGER’S CRIME FAILURE TO ACCOUNT FOR MONEY. JURY RECOMMENDS HIM TO MERCY. THE DISCOVERY LONG DELAYED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The trial of James Milward Houston, company director, aged 44, on charges of fraudulently failing to account for money and of theft, was concluded in the Supreme Court to-day. The separate counts in the indictment number 64, chiefly alleging failure to account. The jury returned to say it had found Houston guilty on all of the first 45 counts and on nine others. On six they acquitted him. The first 45 counts were 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 charges of which he was found guilty were of thefts from Hobart Berkel, Ltd., failure to enter certain items in the books of the company with intent to defraud, and as an officer of the company making a false statement of stock with intent to deceive a creditor. . The jury recommended mercy, considering the defalcations should have been discovered earlier. Houston was remanded for sentence.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1933, Page 9
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