There .was hissing in the High Uaurt of Justiciary at Edinburgh, when J>oid Tiayner sentenced to five years' penal servitude Dr Colquhoun, the former City T-easurer of Glasgow, ■who hurt- confessed tc embezzling iaersi^tlia.n. £50,000, held by him as trustee for many unfortunate persons, TUe defaulting treasurer aimeais Jo hiivs been t»iw unpopularf-arid Sat ivithont cause. JW'Conrt was full of his victims, some of Vhdmlie has condemned to morf. t>:in five ye^rs of poverty ; anJ, wjj^i they heard jjis wnt«nce,tbey hissed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 21 November 1899, Page 3
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