A DEFAULLING SOLICITOR

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20038, 23 March 1914, Page 3

A DEFAULLING SOLICITOR

MEETING OF CREDITORS. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, March 20. The first meeting of creditors in the estate of John Crisp, solicitor, of Palmerston, was held this afternoon, before the official assignee (Mr Kendall). ■Crisp disappeared just when a warrant was issued for his arrest on a charge of forgery. He has never been seen, since. Some of the larger (amounts, of which proof has been presented, were Agnes Jane Lunan, of Glenpark, on whose petition Crisp was adjudicated bankrupt, £624 (sums paid to Crisp in April and August, 1912 for investment); Christina McCullough, Palmerston. £212 (money received for investment), Edward Butt, Palmerston, £391 (money lent); Arthur_ Heckler, • Waikouaiti, £341 (on promissory note), Trustees of the Loyni. Pialmerston Lodge, M.U.I. 0.0. F., £85 (interest on mortgages received and unaccounted for), Michael Dennely, iGoodwood. £200 (money received for investment). In all, the liabilities, it is believed, will total £3000. Another debt, not proved, was one for £104 to Miss Horan for board and money misapplied. The assignee said the assets appeared to be: Library in his office and effects, which might be valued at anything from. £50 to £100. In addition, there were book debts to valtre unknown, and personal effects, including n *notor cycle and typewriter (which cost £29). There might also be an interest of a 1 - -.it £300 on a mortgage, but on thr;';. point he could not speak deftrritivy. lv addition there was a contingent claim of £500 on behalf of the executor of Peter Lunan, which would depend upon other proceedings; also, on behalf of the Trustees of the Lodge, there was a contingent claim for another