Poplar Guardians.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5349, 8 December 1908, Page 4

Poplar Guardians.

Sentences of Imprisonment. [United Press Association] [By Elootrio Telegraph—Copyright.] (Received 4 20 p.m.) LONDON, December 5 Certain members and ex-members of the Poplar Board of Guardians were sentenced at the Old Bailey on charges of conspiracy to defraud. J. K. Peacock and Albert Smith were each sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment ; C. S. Poole, J. 11 Smith and A. E. Finden to nine months’, Job Bellsham to six months’ and Elizabeth Jane Cordery to three months’ imprisonment.

The above defendants, seven in number, were, or had been members of 'the Poplar Board of Guardians, and the information lain by the Director of Public Prosecutions charged them with conspiring to defraud the Board of Managers of the Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum district, of which they wero members, of money and securities. The seven defendants were John Kilpack Peacock, tailor and outfitter, of Sibley-grovo, East Ham; Albert Smith, decorator, of Aberfeldystreet, Poplar; Charles Samuel Poole, licensee of the Nelson Hotel, Southend ; Joseph Robert Smith, of Burystreet, Lower Edmonton, road foreman in the service of the Edmonton Urban District Council; Job Bellsham, of Abbott-street, Poplar, coal dealer; Alfred Edwin Finden, of Grosvenor-buildings, Poplar, secretary of the Progressive Club, Tsle of Dogs; Elizabeth Jane Cordery, a nurse, of Devas-street, Bromley.