BATCHELOR’S SENTENCE.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17570, 8 March 1929, Page 5

BATCHELOR’S SENTENCE.

TWO YEARS REFORMATIVE. (Bv Telegraph.—Press Association.) V CHRISTCHURCH, March 8. In the Supreme Court Mr. Justice Adams sentenced John Black Batchelor an ex-solicitor to two year’s reformative detention on charges of the theft of £I2OO of his client’s money. A BAD EXAMPLE. (Bv Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, March .8. The judge said Batchelor’s example would have a. most serious effect on the reputations of those carrying on their businesses in a perfectly honourable way. It would bring on those trustworthy and honourable people undeserved suspicion and distrust*. PerSOUS least able to lose their money were the most easy victims. The 'result of the discovery of the facts the prisoner Would be struck off the roll of a most honourable profession and one to which he AngVit never to have belonged. The time that entered upon the practice of such ail. honourable and learned profession ought to have known better than to be guilty of ffraud.