FRAUDULENT DEALINGS
COMPANY DIRECTOR’S ACTS GUILTY OR 54 COUNTS. | Per Press Association. ) AUCKLAND. Aug. 4. The trial of James Milward Houston, company director, 44. on charges of fraudulently failing to account for money, and of theft, was concluded in in th.* Supreme Court. Separate counts in tho indictment numbered 61. chiefly alleging failure to account. The jury returned to say that they had found accused guilty on all the first 45 counts and on nine others. On six they acquitted him. The first 45 counts were charges of receiving sums of money upon terms requiring him to account for them te John Burns and Co., Ltd..-and having fraudulently omitted to do so. The other charges on which he was found guilty, wore of thefts from Hobart Bcrkel. Ltd., failure to enter certain items in the books of the company with intent to defraud, and as an officer of the company making n false statement of stock with intent to deceive a credi tor. The jury recommended tq mercy, considering that the defalcations should have boon discovered earlier. Accused was remanded for sentence.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 183, 5 August 1933, Page 9
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