GUILTY DIRECTOR
ON 54 COUNTS. AUCKLAND, Friday. The trial of James Milward Houston, .company director, aged 44, on charges of fraudulently failing to account for money, and of theft, was concluded m the Supreme Court. _ There were separate counts in the indictment to the number of 64, chiefly alleging failure to account. The jury returned to say they had found 'the 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 lam to account for them to John Burns and Co., Ltd., and having fraudulently omitted to do so. The other Charges of which he was found guilty were of thefts from Hobart Berkel, Limited, failure to enter certain items m the books of the company with intent to defraud, and as an officer of the company making a false statement of stock with intent to deceive a creditor. The jury recommended mercy, considering the defalcations should have been discovered earlier. The prisoner was remanded for sentence. —{P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 5 August 1933, Page 5
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