ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15128, 24 January 1917, Page 3

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT.

A MELBOURNE CASE, (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) MELBOURNE, January 23. O'Donoghue has been remanded on five additional charges of embezzling .£2843 from the funds of the Navy Department. The prosecutor stated that the .total defalcations were about 2010,000. O’Dono'ghue’s solicitor objected to the statement that the total defalcations were so much. He said that. O’Donoghue had already refunded £IBOO, and he hoped to refund practically the whole. As a result of lengthy investigations as to defalcations in the Navy Department involving <£sooo, David O’Donoghue was on the 17th inst. charged with converting certain moneys to his own use. SYDNEY MILITARY SCANDAL. . AN OFFICER IN TROUBLE. ” SYDNEY, January 23. At the Police Court, Lieutenant D. H. Howell Price was remanded on a charge of knowingly claiming the pay of Lieutenant Downes during November, 1915, while he was lieutenant-adjutant of the Light Horse. The police prosecutor stated that he understood the accused was a lieutenant-adjutant of the 9th Light Horse from April to July, 1915, and he was alleged to have submitted claims for the pay for the whole unit from the time of its demobilisation till the following November. He drew the money, which is allegedly approximated at £50,000, and left the Defence Force in September last, medically unfit. There was a suggestion that he had not disposed of all the money h© had obtained. Counsel for the defence asked for and obtained £3OOO bail. It is stated that the prisoner’s defence is a good one.