Five Years' Detention.
COMPANY DIRECTOR'S FRAUDS
(By Telegraph—Press Association). AUCKLAND, Aug, 7.
"This is one of the most important cases of commercial fraud it' has been my unpleasant duty to try, and this class of case is becoming almost as common as housebreaking," said Mr. Justice Herdman,. in sentencing James Milward Houston, aged 44, company directory tof-fiye^years' reformative "detention* T^" Houston was found guilty by a jury after a • five-days' trial on charges of fraudttijegtly failing to account for moneys total between £SOOO and £6OOO.
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Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18873, 7 August 1933, Page 2
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