ALLEGED THEFT OF £BOOO
LEGAL TRUST FUNDS.
NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday
The trial commenced in the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr Justice Reed, of Harold John Moule Thomson, solicitor, of Inglewood, and his clerk, Samuel Robert Darlow, on a long series of charges alleging the theft of various sums of trust moneys amounting approximately to £BOOO, from December, 1927, to February, 1931. The indictment contained 60 counts respecting 20 alleged offences. The charges were of committing theft by receiving moneys and fraudulently omitting to account for them; of committing theft by receiving moneys and in violation of good faith fraudulently applying them to some purpose other than that to which they were directed to apply them; and of stealing money. The reading of the indictment occupied 16 minutes and this had to be read first to the accused in order that they might plead, and then a second time to the jury. This procedure and the empanelling of the jury occupied 45 minutes.
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3303, 30 May 1931, Page 4
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162ALLEGED THEFT OF £8000 Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3303, 30 May 1931, Page 4
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